Spring Cleaning - 10-15 Enterprise Rack-mount Servers

[pyrosyndicate]

Hi All o/

I have a stack of around 10-15 enterprise grade old-ish servers here that I am looking to get rid of. I cant be fused with plugging in, testing etc and listing on FB, Ebay etc.

If anyone is interested I'll add some info, again I have not tested, but when I pulled them from my Data Centre they were all working perfectly.

Im not selling them! I am looking to give them to anyone who can benefit from them.

I will post a list shortly.

[pyrosyndicate]

• 2x Supermicro SuperServer 6026TT-HTRF 12-Bay 4x X8DTT-HF+ 2U Rack Server
• Dell R720
• HP SAN.
• Dell PowerVault MD1220
• 2x Apple xServe RAID
• Dell R210ii
• Dell R515
• Apple xServe (Power PC)
• Apple xServe Intel
• HP Proliant DL360e Gen8
• Dell R620

[ajlennon]

Nice! Would love to have a look at some of these? Some of us pay for public static IP addresses at DoES and I am wondering if it would be possible to hang one of these onto that in the server room? ProxMox here we come !!!

[MatthewCroughan]

@ajlennon a fair warning that they are power hungry and noisy old kit that can be replaced by a modern ryzen running with a 10w TDP.

[ajlennon]

Ooooh that's not great then is it. Hummmmmmm.

[MatthewCroughan]

This benchmark data compares one of the CPUs found in the HP Proliant DL360e Gen8 that's on offer, and the TDP of it is 80w, whereas the TDP of comparable low power ryzen processors available today is on display in the benchmarks.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/3886vs2217vs6143/AMD-Ryzen-Embedded-R1305G-vs-Intel-Xeon-E5-2420-v2-vs-AMD-Ryzen-AI-9-HX-370

In the case of the R1305G Ryzen processor it is capable of half the performance, with 10x less power. Making it 5x more efficient per watt.

If you can put them to use, redirect the heat somewhere in a building, or need high-availability and power failover on a budget, etc, maybe it's worth it. But most of what is on offer is inefficient and noisy and only worth it for someone who doesn't have the money to invest in lower power equipment.

[electronicboy]

As somebody who is in the middle of returning to work, I do have some slight interest, if there is no interest otherwise, in taking a machine or two for the purposes of slapping proxmox on there and using it for toying around with tooling and infra and such;

Given that as a lab machine I wouldn’t be likely running them 24/7, the power draw isn’t too huge of a concern for me, I’d just be curious as to what would be included specs wise, I know storage is a fun area here, so, wondering how much of an eBay session I might be in for and if it’s worth it so I can start toying with stuff now vs just waiting a few months to pick up some cheap thinkcentres or something