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!

  • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    80·
    6 months ago

    88 x 8TB drives? 704 TB of storage?

    You got a whole damn data center lol. Good stuff dude. Was this off of ebay or direct from a company? I’m curious to know the total cost.

    • Krafting@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      76·
      6 months ago

      Oh yeah, forgot to mention: All of this for free at my work, I work in a datacenter!

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        6 months ago

        My Jellyfin is also running media from recycled HDDs from work. No where near this impressive haul, but it was nice to be able to get a solid 10 TBs for free to get my server going.

        • Krafting@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          5·
          6 months ago

          My server got updated a lot, starting with a single 1 TB disk, the a single 4TB disk, to 6 4tb disks and now it will be 10 8TB disks

        • Krafting@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          I have my eyes on some fiber channel stuff that got decomissionned, I’ll probably try something with that

  • JASN_DE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    6 months ago

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

      • alekwithak@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        6 months ago

        Yep yep, same. Old droves get destroyed. My word that I’ll wipe the drive is apparently not enough.

        • Lemongrab@lemmy.oneEnglish
          202·
          6 months ago

          For security, yes, your word is not enough. This would be confidentiality in the CIA triad. I still understand your disappointment seeing probably many dozens of drives get destroyed. I get the majority of drives by scrapping old PC and it pains me to see what people will throw out.

            • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              Having a reliable drive erasing setup on site is not a thing? That sounds economically better to me

              • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                6 months ago

                It’s not as secure as simply destroying a drive.

                And it’s not like you’re going to reuse the drives internally - if you were, there’s no issue - reformat and move on. But that doesn’t really happen either - each project has accounting, and it’s more effort to adjust the accounting, plus the risk of moving a used drive.

                Risk really drives a lot of enterprise stuff. Good way to lose your job is to accept risks, especially ones like this that can be completely mitigated by simply destroying drives. That money has been amortized/allocated already, so it’s a much better value than the risk.

      • Cataphract@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Yeah does anyone else wonder if this screams of incompetence from upper management? OP was ONLY able to get the disks, RAM, CPUs and Network Card. Sounds like someone higher up gave the “ok” just thinking the “Server” frame was the important part security wise. It would be an interesting scenario to see if the data center was able to upgrade the system while keeping all of the base components compatible and everything under cost or if this was just a screw up.

        • youmaynotknow@lemmy.mlEnglish
          7·
          6 months ago

          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.

          • Krafting@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            5·
            6 months ago

            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!

            • youmaynotknow@lemmy.mlEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              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).

  • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.comEnglish
    25·
    6 months ago

    Where do you live that power is so cheap that you can spin that much rust and also can you run extension lead to my place?

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      I’ve found the disks hurt my power less than choosing a good motherboard/cpu, and using M2 for the OS drive.

      Using it drives up power. At idle, my latest 5-drive setup draws 20 watts, it goes up when I’m copying files to it (usually syncing media files from 2 other local storages).

      Compared to my old system which was an ancient gaming rig that drew 120w at idle, with only 2 drives (OS and storage).

      I also have a 5 disk NAS running some old drives, it’s idle power is so low I’ve forgotten - maybe 15w? The most it could potentially draw is about 60w, since that’s the power supply max - I’ve seen it draw 45w while rebuilding a disk.

      • rambos@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        At idle, my latest 5-drive setup draws 20 watts

        That’s super low. What drives do you have? Are your drives spinning down?

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          It’s a mix of crap I’ve acquired over the years, all 1TB drives, 3.5",most 5-10 years old, in an old Drobo I inherited. Yea, it’s a massive risk, but it’s one of 3 storage systems replicating data locally, plus a Crashplan backup.

          Since it’s 5 drives, I’m pretty sure it spins them down - at best if they drew 3w each, it’d be 15w in drives alone.

          Running it on a smart switch, I’ve never seen it draw more than 30w, and that’s at boot time with 5 drives.

          My 3-drive Proxmox box (a Dell SFF) drives are a mix of spinning metal and SSD (2.5"), it idles about 20w, peaks at 100w when I’m converting video files with a VM. That hardware is about 5 years old too, 32gb of ram, booting from an M2 drive.

          My use-case is very high idle time (95%+?), so I’m targeting lowest idle power consumption. Pretty much anything will suck power once I’m doing anything heavy (like video conversion).

  • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    6 months ago

    I’m super jealous. Whenever we decom servers at work, we’re required to fill out paperwork and provide proof that all HDDs and SSDs were properly destroyed (i.e. rendered completely unusable and wiped) and turned in to our disposal department. The servers themselves also have to be handed over to them. I’m not sure what they do with the servers, but I’m guessing they either repurpose them as emergency replacements for other sites that have hardware failures or they bulk sell them at auctions or something.

    • Krafting@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      15·
      6 months ago

      Yeah… that sucks, but then they’ll tell you about green IT and stuff, but they just throw away and destroy stuff that could be used elsewhere…

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      SSDs were properly destroyed

      I hate when companies do this, SSDs do not need to be shredded, there’s no security benefit whatsoever. You don’t even need to do the whole “write 0s/random data X times” like with HDDs. So damn wasteful ugh.

      • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Our SSDs just have to be wiped but we still have to document and provide proof they were wiped and turned in. HDDs and tapes are a different story and a pain in the ass, though.

  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

    I assume they’re past some operational limit. But as long as you have redundancy that’s a risk I’d take for the capacity

    • Krafting@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      13·
      6 months ago

      With 88 disks, some RAID 5 I think I’m going to be okey if one of them fails! (I also have a backup server)

          • Yondoza@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            17·
            6 months ago

            Hard to tell if this is a proposal to fight over hardware or an offer for free stuff.

            I choose to believe the former because it makes me chuckle more.

              • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
                81·
                6 months ago

                “Ugh, now they’re both crying…” Covers microphone “Someone hit somebody! God, in my 13 years of UFC announcing, I’ve never been more embarrassed…”

                • Krafting@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  8·
                  6 months ago

                  “What is this one doing??? Is he… what’s this weird Arch logo on his laptop”

          • LostXOR@fedia.io
            7·
            6 months ago

            Where are you located? I’m in need of some new backup drives and would be happy to pay a reasonable price + shipping if you’re interested.

            • Krafting@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              7·
              6 months ago

              I’m in France, however I’ll not sell them immediately, maybe you could check serverpartsdeals to get some cheap refurbished drives

              • Chaphasilor [he/him]@feddit.nlEnglish
                2·
                6 months ago

                I happen to be in France this summer :P

                But I should probably get my backup server set up before that…
                Hope you have fun with those drives!