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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Krafting@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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!

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[-] JASN_DE@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Krafting@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago
[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago

Just a heads up, trying to buy Uranium for the reactor on Ebay will get you in trouble real fast, so be careful!

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Everyone knows you need to harvest it from smoke detectors like the Nuclear ~~Eagle~~ Boy Scout did.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

David Charles Hahn (October 30, 1976 โ€“ September 27, 2016), sometimes called the "Radioactive Boy Scout" and the "Nuclear Boy Scout" was an American nuclear radiation enthusiast who built a homemade neutron source at the age of seventeen.

Sad read, poor guy.

Never thought Iโ€™d read someone:

attained Eagle Scout rank shortly after his lab was dismantled.

[-] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 13 points 2 years ago

You just need your mom to date someone that works at a secret government base, "borrow" their badge, swap the uranium with dish soap, and good to go.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

How's my mom gonna have time for that when she's busy with every male COD player ever?

[-] Krafting@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

There's anything else? ๐Ÿ˜

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

NileRed? Is that you?

[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

Would something that can switch on and off the drives as needed be bad for them? A small bit of lag could be worth it if they really would take that much to power

[-] sploosh@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago
[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

And RAID hardware and software do too - this can be a problem with some drives (I always forget which ones, WD black? Or is it the reds? I'm almost positive Greens are not recommended for RAID arrays)

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