6 servers were decomissioned, Iwas able to only get the disks, RAM, CPUs and Network Card.

The total of this is : 88 x 8TB SAS disks 44 x 16GB RAM sticks (half 2133, half 2400) 6 x v3 Xeon e3 2630 6 x v4 Xeon e5 2640 3 x 10 GB PCIe dual port cards 12 x 1U heatsink

I’m really lucky to have all of these, even if I don’t have a use for all of that for now (except some of the disks)

EDIT: Forgot to mention: All of this for free, I work in a datacenter!

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51 points

Nice haul! I hope you also managed to get the small power plant for the drives. That’s not going to be pretty.

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that’s true ahah

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Just a heads up, trying to buy Uranium for the reactor on Ebay will get you in trouble real fast, so be careful!

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Everyone knows you need to harvest it from smoke detectors like the Nuclear Eagle Boy Scout did.

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You just need your mom to date someone that works at a secret government base, “borrow” their badge, swap the uranium with dish soap, and good to go.

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NileRed? Is that you?

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Would something that can switch on and off the drives as needed be bad for them? A small bit of lag could be worth it if they really would take that much to power

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Drives do this on their own.

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And RAID hardware and software do too - this can be a problem with some drives (I always forget which ones, WD black? Or is it the reds? I’m almost positive Greens are not recommended for RAID arrays)

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