Dell PE 2950 with 1TB drives
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Opinion:
Is a Dell PE 2950, full memory and 1TB drives worth $300?
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Yes, I'd happily give you $500CDN for that (300USD)
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@MattSpeller
Then please,.. send me your money. -
@gjacobse Would if I needed one! Right now that's just a want.
Edit: also shipping that behemoth to me would be more than $300 of anyone's currency.
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@gjacobse Where is the server located?
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@DustinB3403
For me - Local to 15-25 miles. -
@gjacobse Yeah that doesn't provide me any detail on how far away the server is lol...
Are you at NTG HQ?
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Nope - About 10 hour drive from the NTG office.
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@gjacobse said:
Opinion:
Is a Dell PE 2950, full memory and 1TB drives worth $300?
You can find Dell PE 2950's and Dell PE 1950's free all the time. They are scrap now days.
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@gjacobse I bought a PE 2950 for testing from Dell's refurbish ebay site 3 years ago for about 350 plus 100 shipping. It had 2 73gig SAS Drives and the rest were 500gig SAS and only 8GB RAM and No OS. It is still working great running a newly install of XenServer.
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That feels like a high price. It's the "fully loaded" that makes it potentially reasonable. Just how much memory is in there?
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1TB drives suggests that those are SATA drives.
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@scottalanmiller said:
That feels like a high price. It's the "fully loaded" that makes it potentially reasonable. Just how much memory is in there?
If it's the one I see on Amazon, it's 32GB. I wish I would have seen that before I got my DL380. It's only got 24 GB and much less disk space (they are faster, but doesn't help me much).
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Have you checked with anyone local? I've gotten about 10-20 of the PE2950s and PE1950s free within the last three years. I usually just give them away to college kids for labs because I don't really need them but I see them free all the time. Usually with 16GB of ram and 4x 73GB SAS.
If they have 1TB they are most certainly SATA, enterprise Hitachi drives if they are original.
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@Jason said:
Have you checked with anyone local? I've gotten about 10-20 of the PE2950s and PE1950s free within the last three years. I usually just give them away to college kids for labs because I don't really need them but I see them free all the time. Usually with 16GB of ram and 4x 73GB SAS.
If they have 1TB they are most certainly SATA, enterprise Hitachi drives if they are original.
Oh wow. I didn't know places would give these away like that. I'll have to look into this
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@johnhooks said:
Oh wow. I didn't know places would give these away like that. I'll have to look into this
That's how most of these are for sell these days. A company gives away the server to a recycler so they don't have to pay to dispose of it. Recycler either sells direct to customers or sells to an IT refurbisher. Many places don't care who gets them as long as they don't have to pay for disposal.
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@Jason said:
@johnhooks said:
Oh wow. I didn't know places would give these away like that. I'll have to look into this
That's how most of these are for sell these days. A company gives away the server to a recycler so they don't have to pay to dispose of it. Recycler either sells direct to customers or sells to an IT refurbisher. Many places don't care who gets them as long as they don't have to pay for disposal.
That's interesting, disposal around here is like $.10/lb
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Glad I do not need certified disposal. I just take everything (minus HDD) to a friend of mine that runs a computer shop. Some local junkers come around every few weeks and take it all from him to separate for scrap.
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@JaredBusch said:
Glad I do not need certified disposal. I just take everything (minus HDD) to a friend of mine that runs a computer shop. Some local junkers come around every few weeks and take it all from him to separate for scrap.
That's hard to believe they can get enough money from the scrap to make it worth the time and effort to get all of the junk.
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@johnhooks said:
@JaredBusch said:
Glad I do not need certified disposal. I just take everything (minus HDD) to a friend of mine that runs a computer shop. Some local junkers come around every few weeks and take it all from him to separate for scrap.
That's hard to believe they can get enough money from the scrap to make it worth the time and effort to get all of the junk.
Junkers are a breed of their own man.
