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!
I tend to replace my drives (if $$$ permits) every 2 to 3 years unless one of them fails before that. And seeing as they are willing to give 2 years of warranty on some of those renewed drives, I’m not really that concerned.
I am, however, buying 2 brand new 20TB drives for parity, which would be my biggest concern. On top of that, I have a mirror of my server in my brother’s house over 2K miles away (beats paying cloud failover, for sure).
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I thought I was living large with my two 12tb drives I bought for $86 each lol.
Damn, where’d you find that deal?
Probably here : https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/hard-drives They sold 18TB drives for 100€ last months
I was almost crying while looking for drives to increase the storage space of my current 10TB drives in my UnRaid, because of the price.
You will now be known as “the tears-Minator”.
Thank you so much for this link.
Keep in mind they are refurbished tho! They will work fine, but they also have a lot of hours on them too!
But you’re welcome! They do offer some sweet deals!
I tend to replace my drives (if $$$ permits) every 2 to 3 years unless one of them fails before that. And seeing as they are willing to give 2 years of warranty on some of those renewed drives, I’m not really that concerned.
I am, however, buying 2 brand new 20TB drives for parity, which would be my biggest concern. On top of that, I have a mirror of my server in my brother’s house over 2K miles away (beats paying cloud failover, for sure).