Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy

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!

mannycalavera,
@mannycalavera@feddit.uk avatar

Sheeeeeiiiiiitt

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/002/229/ss.jpg

God damn I’m jealous.

Krafting,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

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

ShepherdPie,

Me too. I thought these would be a bunch of 1TB HDDs but OP blew us away with them being 8TB.

RootBeerGuy,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Honestly, 88 1TB drives would make me envious too.

neo,

All in the game.

victorz,

I’m not, but I am envious. Happy for OP though.

JASN_DE,

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

Krafting,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

that’s true ahah

shrugal,

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

CCMan1701A,

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,

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

Krafting,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

Who plays COD nowadays ?

BearOfaTime,

There’s anything else? 😁

AtariDump, (edited )

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

brbposting,

David Charles Hahn (October 30, 1976 – 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 I’d read someone:

attained Eagle Scout rank shortly after his lab was dismantled.

AtariDump,

Sad that he died in 2016.

brbposting,

Too young.

user224,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

NileRed? Is that you?

Kowowow,

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,

Drives do this on their own.

BearOfaTime,

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)

Bluefruit,

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,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

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

Bluefruit,

Well now im very jealous lol. Good for you man, thats a banger deal.

deweydecibel,

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,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

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

unwillingsomnambulist,

Somewhere, an ISO27001 auditor’s jimmies started rustling.

brbposting,

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.

unwillingsomnambulist,

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

brbposting,

Thanks :)

stevestevesteve,

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,

👏

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

xtremeownage,

That, is a pretty good deal. Better start picking up some MD1200s!

Krafting,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

I have my eyes on some fiber channel stuff that got decomissionned, I’ll probably try something with that

alexdeathway,
@alexdeathway@programming.dev avatar

88 × 8 Tb? Archive the internet archives.

Krafting,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

If the internet archive wants some, I’d love to give some to them ahah

But I’m already archiving a lot of stuff, from Youtube, ISO, and more!

brbposting,

Shared your comment with them (info@archive.org) - you’re awesome!

possiblylinux127,

I thought disks were suppose to be destroyed

Krafting,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

Depends on the data on them. They were erased before I got them of course too.

bassomitron,

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,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

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,

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.

Krafting,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

Drives, I understand but servers tho…

PolarisFx,
@PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

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,

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,
@Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

(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,

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,

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,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

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)

readyno,

I mean if you wanna spare 2 or 3 I know a guy

Krafting,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

come and get them!

Yondoza,

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.

Krafting,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

Let’s just make an arena where the nerds fight to win a disk!

thefartographer,

“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,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

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

thefartographer,

That’s the moment where the fighters and the crowd attack and eat the announcer

LostXOR,

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,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

I’m in France, however I’ll not sell them immediately, maybe you could check serverpartsdeals to get some cheap refurbished drives

Chaphasilor,

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!

AtariDump,

Go RAID 6 and save some disks for backups.

chiisana,
@chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net avatar

The RAID rebuild time is going to be longer than the OEM warranty… love it!

Sunny,

Holy shit, I know where to apply for a job next time 😅

bjoern_tantau,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

https://swg-empire.de/pictrs/image/51128588-97c0-4ac3-9089-7cdab28cd509.gif

LifeLikeLady,
@LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world avatar

I thought I was living large with my two 12tb drives I bought for $86 each lol.

TheButtonJustSpins,

Damn, where’d you find that deal?

Krafting,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

Probably here : serverpartdeals.com/collections/hard-drivesThey sold 18TB drives for 100€ last months

jjlinux,

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,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

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!

jjlinux,

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).

partial_accumen,

While thats an awesome pile of storage, I weep for your electricity bill.

NESSI3, (edited )

.

Alteon,

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.

Krafting,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

For now nope, and it’s SAS, do you have use for them ? Also look at serverpartsdeal to buy some nice used drives ! serverpartdeals.com/collections/hard-drives

SidewaysHighways,

Been browsing that site for a few weeks waiting for the perfect time to strike

TCB13,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

With great power…

Reawake9179,

…bill?

Steamymoomilk,

Damnn all for free! Lucky bastard

Lmao Put her to good use!

alekwithak,

I also work in a data center, I can’t take anything :(

PolarisFx,
@PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

We have a hard drive degausser and shredder. Lucky bastard taking things home

alekwithak,

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

Lemongrab,

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.

brbposting,

CIA triad (confidentiality, integrity and availability)

TIL

justme,

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

BearOfaTime,

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.

randombullet,

Gotta issue them a NIST 800-88 certificate and you’re golden.

Cataphract,

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.

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