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
    95·
    8 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
      91·
      8 months ago

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

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          8 months 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
            13·
            8 months 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
              8·
              8 months ago

              👏

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

          • methodicalaspect@midwest.socialEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            Absolutely, and it’s usually up to the organization disposing of the drives to set and document the standard by which they abide.

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        8 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·
          8 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
          2·
          8 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
    51·
    8 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
        24·
        8 months ago

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

        • Lemongrab@lemmy.oneEnglish
          252·
          8 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·
              8 months ago

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

              • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                8 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·
        8 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
          8·
          8 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·
            8 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·
              8 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).

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    311·
    8 months ago

    Holy shit dude. You can take like a quarter of that and make an absolutely silly system, and make a decent chunk of change selling the rest.

  • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.comEnglish
    27·
    8 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
      5·
      8 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·
        8 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·
          8 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).

  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    8 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
      16·
      8 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
            18·
            8 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
                101·
                8 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
                  9·
                  8 months ago

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

          • LostXOR@fedia.io
            7·
            8 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·
              8 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·
                8 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!

  • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    8 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
      16·
      8 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…

      • ShepherdPie@midwest.socialEnglish
        9·
        8 months ago

        It’s an IP issue. Nobody wants to be the one responsible for leaking someone’s proprietary design or PII just to make a little bit of cash from selling used drives. My work has 55 gallon drums with a slot on top to dispose of hard drives for this same reason.

          • PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            8 months ago

            eWaste. We have a contract to give an outside company all our stuff. We degauss and shred hard drives and everything else does in a big bin that they pickup every month.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      8 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.

      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        (Assuming SATA) some people get away with drilling a hole in the half opposite the connector, the actual chip is like 1/4th the size of the drive casing. M.2 form factor is just screwed though.

      • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 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.