You really don’t want it. At least most of it. I get discarded stuff from work quite frequently and 95% of it is way too loud, way too hot, and uses a boat-load of power. And I don’t mean like sitting next to a running house fan loud. I mean sitting next to a jet engine loud. Like if you are in a data center behind this equipment, you struggle to have a conversation with a guy a foot from you.
But if you got a nice cool basement and you never have to pay for power, you can get lots of good stuff relatively cheap.
Nah, the RAM will be ECC, but AMD motherboards often will take that. SSDs will be m2 or SAS, you may have to find yourself a PCIE card to hook up those, but it shouldn’t be impossible.
Or Dell Precision Workstations. The SSDs would likely be SAS but maybe U2 or E1.S. Those would be harder to use but not impossible. I saw a QNAP that takes E1.S just yesterday. Of course the 5 bay without drives was $1k.
This is how you end up with a homelab, it just takes one managed switch or a blade server amd now youre on ebay everyday looking for deals and struggling to pay electric bills.
Anything useful will be smashed before they go into the dumpsters. There will be plenty of slightly discounted “refurbished” SSDs that will fail after a day though.
Sure but do you know what’s going to happen to scrap metal prices when the bubble bursts? Good luck making a penny on a dump truck full of SSDs, especially when diesel will be $20/gallon. Maybe a river barge full will be worth the trouble.
Woohoo! Send it all to my address please!
You really don’t want it. At least most of it. I get discarded stuff from work quite frequently and 95% of it is way too loud, way too hot, and uses a boat-load of power. And I don’t mean like sitting next to a running house fan loud. I mean sitting next to a jet engine loud. Like if you are in a data center behind this equipment, you struggle to have a conversation with a guy a foot from you.
But if you got a nice cool basement and you never have to pay for power, you can get lots of good stuff relatively cheap.
I think we are okay making that mistake ourselves.
I mean that’s true. I probably would too. Well for about a week and then my wife would tell me to get rid of it.
You get a week? I had to get rid of it same day 😔
Just give me RAM and SSDs.
I guess those will also be mostly proprietary and unusable :-(
Nah, the RAM will be ECC, but AMD motherboards often will take that. SSDs will be m2 or SAS, you may have to find yourself a PCIE card to hook up those, but it shouldn’t be impossible.
NVME slots are pretty ubiquitous on mobos now
Exactly!
Or Dell Precision Workstations. The SSDs would likely be SAS but maybe U2 or E1.S. Those would be harder to use but not impossible. I saw a QNAP that takes E1.S just yesterday. Of course the 5 bay without drives was $1k.
Nah that surprisingly is some of the most useful stuff. I have a machine upstairs with 512gb of ECC DDR4 from just that sorta situation.
If it exists, then there is an adapter.
This is how you end up with a homelab, it just takes one managed switch or a blade server amd now youre on ebay everyday looking for deals and struggling to pay electric bills.
True dat.
Anything useful will be smashed before they go into the dumpsters. There will be plenty of slightly discounted “refurbished” SSDs that will fail after a day though.
Metals can be recovered and recycle from smashed technology
Sure but do you know what’s going to happen to scrap metal prices when the bubble bursts? Good luck making a penny on a dump truck full of SSDs, especially when diesel will be $20/gallon. Maybe a river barge full will be worth the trouble.
Sell your copper soon folks.