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
    32·
    1 year 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
      32·
      1 year ago

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

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year 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
          3·
          1 year 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

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Do you think it’s possible for old decommissioned drives to be donated in a compliant manner?

          Reference for others:

          ISO/IEC 27001 is an international standard to manage information security. … It details requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an information security management system (ISMS) – the aim of which is to help organizations make the information assets they hold more secure. Organizations that meet the standard’s requirements can choose to be certified by an accredited certification body following successful completion of an audit.

          • stevestevesteve@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            It certainly is. ISO 27001 is a framework, not very prescriptive at all. Basically an auditor will ask “how do you ensure data isn’t leaving your facility in the form of discarded hardware?” If you say “here’s a link to our media destruction policy. It says all drives are wiped according to NIST 800-88 cryptographic erasure. If that is not possible or not applicable, the drive is destroyed. Here’s our log of decomissioned equipment” chances are very good they’ll say “OK great let’s move on to the next one” with only minor followup questions.

            • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              👏

              I recognize there’s a likelihood you are usually being paid for answers like that. Thank you for satisfying my curiosity for free :)

  • JASN_DE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

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

  • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year 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
      5·
      1 year 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
      4·
      1 year 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
        2·
        1 year 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
    6·
    1 year 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
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been jealous of people, same as you, now it’s my turn to shine! Your turn will come!

  • Alteon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Hey! Would you be willing to sell some of them? Looking at setting up a server at home that some of my friends and neighbors can use. I was going to buy them brand new, but I’d be fine with used if your interested in getting rid of some of them.