Sure I'll recycle your computers for you

[FakeNSA]

23 hours ago, Syntaxvgm said:

he's coming from a laptop with like an 840m I think, so this will be good for him.

It'd be cooler if I just permanently gave it to him, but nah I want it back some day if he upgrades im greedy

Nothing long with a long term loan! I still would not say no. 

[Syntaxvgm]

Well huge update time
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Yesterday I was flagged down (work in same building). 
"Glad I found you"
I thought, oh boy, they fucked up. 

Nope. They had more computer stuff they wanted me to take. 
I got a chance to talk to one of the IT guys for this, who I assumed works for the main company and administrates this branch remotely unless he's needed there. 

From what I could interpret, they were getting a new server and new machines when they moved, and the reason I'm getting good stuff is "it's not our money so who cares". 
He seemed to be pleased that I'm finding a home for this stuff anyway. He gave me a server, and when I went to tear out the drives, I noticed this had 3 3TB drives and 2 256GB ssds. At this point I had already talk to some people about the drives I ended up with before. I was having problems getting to the trays (weird case) and I just wanted to get it loaded and get back to work. So I asked about just secure erasing the drives, and he directed me to who I think was the company president? She had no problem with it. For some reason a guy in an old work shirt, torn jeans, and sandals with really long hair and a beard (I have no dress code) looked like the guy to trust- or that she seemed to think if the IT guy thought I knew what to do, it was fine. Idk. What I do know is this was going directly int he trash, and they may not have kept the drives.

I also received another desktop (different haswell i5) and 2 720p security tvs, some printer crap and more cords. 
To give you an idea of all the junk I have, here's just one box 

So a lot of it will be recycled, inlcuding several desktops from 15 or more years ago. 
Here's the third useful desktop- the second haswell i5

The server is a sandy e3-1275, i7 equivalent basically. 

more server pics 

It has 32 GB of memory, not sure if ecc yet, but I haven't had time to look. It took seven hours to securely wipe the drives last night. 


He also told me that he had more for me to take today, something about a ups and networking stuff. Told him to just knock on my office. 
Today's haul
Little while ago, I picked up 3 upses. I haven't looked at all of them yet, but the two cyberpower ones are 1500va ones like on I already own. There are 4 in total, and 1 is a very heavy rackmount one. There's also a quad core athlon desktop I guess. 
I think this is everything, but who knows. 
I will update when everything is sorted through, this might take some time I have a wedding to go to this weekend. 

[Radium_Angel]

29 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

I will update when everything is sorted through

Thx for the heads up. The Xeon chip is almost certainly ecc ram. If you want to sell some of this stuff, I"m interested in the server...

[Syntaxvgm]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

Thx for the heads up. The Xeon chip is almost certainly ecc ram. If you want to sell some of this stuff, I"m interested in the server...

I think Im keeping the server, but im not 100% sure yet.

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, Syntaxvgm said:

I think Im keeping the server, but im not 100% sure yet.

No harm done, I'm a huge fan of Dell PowerEdge servers if one should fall into your hands

[Syntaxvgm]

2 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

No harm done, I'm a huge fan of Dell PowerEdge servers if one should fall into your hands

I like dell professional/ commercial stuff too! Typing this from a precision. Fuck HP

[RollTime]

43 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

*snip*

You lucky dog.

[TopHatProductions115]

The Xeon E3 and 32GB RAM is worth keeping if possible  Along with any UPSs over 1kW!

[AntiTrust]

damn thats a really nice second haul. esp the xeon and haswell make up for the other junk.

Have you sold anything yet? I would be flogging the sh*tty 20-22 inch monitors on craigslist for like 20$ each. 

 

the 3TB hard drives and SSD I would just keep and reuse. 

 

2 hours ago, Syntaxvgm said:

So a lot of it will be recycled, inlcuding several desktops from 15 or more years ago. 

the poor office workers that were still using these computers up until recently LOL

[Yoinkerman]

You got some cuties in there

[Speed Weed]

Please recycle my life to make it better. Thank you very much.

[Syntaxvgm]

45 minutes ago, AntiTrust said:

damn thats a really nice second haul. esp the xeon and haswell make up for the other junk.

Have you sold anything yet? I would be flogging the sh*tty 20-22 inch monitors on craigslist for like 20$ each. 

 

the 3TB hard drives and SSD I would just keep and reuse. 

 

the poor office workers that were still using these computers up until recently LOL

no I think some have been sitting. They were on good crap. I mean one of the decommissioned ones I got was a 6700! Small office, lots of good new ultrawides and stuff. I mean some of the old stuff was even overkill. One of the old XP laptops was a giant one with 2 drives in raid. 

20 minutes ago, Yoinkerman said:

You got some cuties in there

This office was full of BBW

19 minutes ago, DaPhuc said:

Please recycle my life to make it better. Thank you very much.

By asking the lord for forgiveness and pushing religion on everyone you meet through awkward conversations about how it helped you personally, you can become a worse person as a starting point for being better. 

[Syntaxvgm]

47 minutes ago, AntiTrust said:

damn thats a really nice second haul. esp the xeon and haswell make up for the other junk.

Have you sold anything yet? I would be flogging the sh*tty 20-22 inch monitors on craigslist for like 20$ each. 

 

the 3TB hard drives and SSD I would just keep and reuse. 

 

the poor office workers that were still using these computers up until recently LOL

Dont forget the skylake! Yah Im very busy in the short term, but in the next couple of weeks I will be breaking stuff up as far as what to do with it. What goes to ewaste, what craigslist, and what goes to ebay. I already have a ton of stuff I need to ebay anyway. 

[TopHatProductions115]

You know who wants a Xeon E3, then  

[Mornincupofhate]

Use those xeons to build hella powerful servers, slap them in a datacenter and rent out remote access on separate VMs

 

profit x 1000

[Speed Weed]

1 hour ago, Syntaxvgm said:

By asking the lord for forgiveness and pushing religion on everyone you meet through awkward conversations about how it helped you personally, you can become a worse person as a starting point for being better. 

I believe these priests are making money in the Lord name. Every time I go to Sunday service, the church people always asking  money like for real. 

[aezakmi]

-snip-

 

why zeroing the drives though? it's not like you're gonna use anything that's inside them, just a quick format and you can use them

 

3 hours ago, DaPhuc said:

Please recycle my life to make it better. Thank you very much.

the fact that you don't have this pic

as avatar is very disturbing.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

Damn, nice haul.

[TechyBen]

1 minute ago, aezakmi said:

-snip-

 

why zeroing the drives though? it's not like you're gonna use anything that's inside them, just a quick format and you can use them

 

the fact that you don't have this pic

as avatar is very disturbing.

Full format is the same as zeroing... If an SSD, AFAIK TRIM also "zeros" the drive. Samsung offers a utility that does "secure erase", which I assume also erases any manufacturer partitioned/reserved space as well. So no worries if they are zeroing to use later...

 

Though there is no guarantee that the drive has not partitioned around some damage (and used it's reserve space to make it the damage hidden to the end user). So theoretically, data can be left on the drive. If it's your drive, and personal data, you can take the risk if you wish. I do, because the chance the 15k or data is the one bit of cache my bank details were on, is a bizillion and 2 to one.

[Radium_Angel]

4 hours ago, Syntaxvgm said:

This office was full of BBW

Well, you know what they say:

 

"More bounce per ounce"

"For fun per ton"

"More cushion for the pushing"

[Syntaxvgm]

22 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Well, you know what they say:

 

"More bounce per ounce"

"For fun per ton"

"More cushion for the pushing"

maybe a little too much cushion for safety reasons  

[Speed Weed]

2 hours ago, aezakmi said:

-snip-

 

why zeroing the drives though? it's not like you're gonna use anything that's inside them, just a quick format and you can use them

 

the fact that you don't have this pic

as avatar is very disturbing.

The Father

 

The Son

 

The Holy Spirit

 

The Followers

[Syntaxvgm]

15 hours ago, aezakmi said:

-snip-

 

why zeroing the drives though? it's not like you're gonna use anything that's inside them, just a quick format and you can use them

 

the fact that you don't have this pic

as avatar is very disturbing.

Because I said I would.
And it's very easy to recover data after a quick format.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

God damn that's some nice loot. You up to sell those SSDs?

[Syntaxvgm]

Just now, OrbitalBuzzsaw said:

God damn that's some nice loot. You up to sell those SSDs?

probably not on the ssds, I have pretty much refused to have an hdd boot drive in anything for the past few years. I have one less than I have good systems from this, and I'm not sure what im breaking up an selling on ebay yet. At least one a friend is getting with the 6700k system.