WTB: Hard drives and other pc bits

[confusis]

Need a few hard drives for reconditioning systems. all the HDDs i have spare now are going in the bin later - toast!

Also interested in buying/'adopting' any old systems and components.

Any systems I rebuild are only onsold for the cost of what I buy them for and the cost of my labour (cheap) and replacement parts. So if I get given a computer, and all the parts are fine, I can pass it on to a new owner who needs an upgrade for free! (well i will charge for cleaning it up and reformatting, installing drivers etc).
Last system i 'Re-homed' replaced their celeron 900 with a 2.5 ghz i think. they were ecstatic! Required a new hard drive and replaced the thermal compound, charged less than $50 for the whole deal. (and i adopted their old system and am in the process of rebuilding it. )

So anyone got anything?

[bradc]

I've got newish sata drives I can sell you.

If your car was working then you could have the approx 20 spare computers in our office.

[Davezj]

Happy birthday Confusis,

i think this is what you call you public birthday!!!

[wintertidenz]

Ooo, what spec are they Brad? Anything recent (ie. not P4)? :P

On another note, I have some 20GB IDE drives lying around at home... I'll test them thoroughly and let you know how many I have. Also have a couple of P4 and Athlon chips around too, will see if I can test them as well.

[bradc]

everything in the office here is a P4 or older and 90% ide drives.

[Ryan]

I have 4x 36GB SCSI drives in a caddy from Dell PowerEdge 1440SC which won't fit in my 2550. :thinking2

[CANDEE]

I have 4x 36GB SCSI drives in a caddy from Dell PowerEdge 1440SC which won't fit in my 2550. :thinking2
Hmmm will these work on my old dell desktop with its scsi controller lol..

J

[Ryan]

Hmmm will these work on my old dell desktop with its scsi controller lol..

J

If it's an Ultra 3 SCSI controller card and you have four spare power connectors I see no reason why it shouldn't. Oh you'll also need the data ribbon but can probably find one lying around here somewhere.

[confusis]

I've got newish sata drives I can sell you.

If your car was working then you could have the approx 20 spare computers in our office.

I could pay you to bring them down?

Don't know where I'd store them though lol. Computer wall!


On another note, I have some 20GB IDE drives lying around at home... I'll test them thoroughly and let you know how many I have. Also have a couple of P4 and Athlon chips around too, will see if I can test them as well.
Sounds good, i have a couple of empty 462 boards (well one has a possibly cracked duron, is picky about when it wants to boot and doesn't boot at all in a known working board) and spare p4's are good to have as replacements if i get slower compatible systems (eg celerys)

Empty cases are fine too as i have more boards than cases at the moment.

Any am2/am2+ boards around? I have 2 am2 cpus spare.


Oh and if anyone is looking for any old hardware i have a stack of k6-500 boards and sdram that i don't really want to give out as a proper system but somebody may need the parts. Or they will end up being a NAS/slow-ass render farm..

[wintertidenz]

Chuck Linux on the K6-500's along with 2 NIC's and you can set up a firewall :) shouldn't need anything more grunty than that especially if you aren't running a GUI...

[confusis]

i'm a uber-n00b when it comes to linux. only time ive messed with it was livecds of gentoo and suse. with the easy to use installers!

[confusis]

if they're going to be chucked or similar, winteertidenz and myself could split the systems even?

as i said im happy to pay for your time/petroleum distillate to bring them down to me brad :)

[Ryan]

If you ever get round to seeing Brad, I can donate:

2 x 16MB RAGE Pro AGP cards

1 x socket 478 Pentium 4 CPU @ 1.4GHz
1 x socket 478 Celeron CPU @ 2.8GHz
1 x socket 370 Celeron CPU @ 1.0GHz
1 x socket 370 Pentium 3 CPU @ 933MHz
1 x super socket 7 AMD K6-2 @ 500MHz

1 x PC3200 RAM module 256MB (DDR 400)
1 x PC133 RAM modeule 128MB

The SCSI drives I mentioned...

[wintertidenz]

Nah, better for you to take all the machines mate and put them to a good use - I get told off enough for having a server, spare computer, monitor and other parts lying around :D

[confusis]

If you ever get round to seeing Brad, I can donate:

2 x 16MB RAGE Pro AGP cards

1 x socket 478 Pentium 4 CPU @ 1.4GHz
1 x socket 478 Celeron CPU @ 2.8GHz
1 x socket 370 Celeron CPU @ 1.0GHz
1 x socket 370 Pentium 3 CPU @ 933MHz
1 x super socket 7 AMD K6-2 @ 500MHz

1 x PC3200 RAM module 256MB (DDR 400)
1 x PC133 RAM modeule 128MB

The SCSI drives I mentioned...

cool thanks! i've run out of agp cards so thats perfect. ooh yay another k6-500 ;)

i do have a scsi card but i dont know if it's compatible. i would like to run an online storage facility for my clients as a backup system..

[Ryan]

i do have a scsi card but i dont know if it's compatible. i would like to run an online storage facility for my clients as a backup system..

In this case your SCSI controller needs to have 68 pin connectors (SCSI 3) otherwise I have a ton of controllers lying around at work...

[confusis]

hmm will have a look. the card was used by us for an old HP scanner so might be too old

[confusis]

damn mines 50 pin

[wintertidenz]

I'll have another search at home - I have some 9GB SCSI drives around, and I might even have an HP NetRaid SCSI card too... with battery backup even :D

[Ryan]

damn mines 50 pin

No bother, I've an Intel i960 controller with 64 or 128mb which you can have. You still need the ribbon cable though which I may or may not have...

[bradc]

I've got cables

[confusis]

i might have to organise you to courier the bits down, i'm happy to pay for courier costs and your time :)

[confusis]

anybody happy for me to pay courier costs for the stuff?

[confusis]

Desperately need some drives. Any takers for my courier offer? will pay for drives even (as of wednesday, payday :P) CBA dealing with tardme

[wintertidenz]

Still need to test my 20GB drives - will try to chuck them on test tomorrow and see how they are.

After I've sorted them I will PM you :)

[confusis]

awesome.

[confusis]

will take the cpus you have too - hopefully have a working socket a system for rehoming if i get a working cpu

[bradc]

We still have ~25 systems at work doing nothing, I need to harass the boss about it, but we've been so busy I haven't had the time.

[confusis]

sweet as brad, whenever works for you, im happy to take them :)

(i could even nag my dad to let me borrow his BA falcon wagon)

[confusis]

bump de bump

[confusis]

bump... i also need cases :) any size/shape, will pay shipping.

[wintertidenz]

Aww dammit, I keep forgetting about this :( gonna make a note to do it this weekend!

[confusis]

lol its fine :)

[confusis]

and up you go :)

[confusis]

still after parts...

[Ryan]

My little CPU collection kind of found the bin during my move. I have an old server here which you can have. It's a P4 @ 2.8GHz with 1GB RAM (DDR) 512kb L2 cache - SCSI cards, AGP slot and also supports IDE. Trouble is I binned my entire SCSI array from my PowerEdge 1400SC so it has no drives.

It's yours too if you want it but I'm not couriering it anywhere. It will probably have to go with Brad or whoever heads out your way.

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ps: Just looked at my list of parts, can added an extra 256MB ram to it.

[wintertidenz]

Ryan - I will chuck in my collection of 9GB SCSI drives for the server if it takes the 68-pin type drives (Wide-Ultra 3's?).

And I'm still scrubbing those drives for you :) girlfriend hates the noise so I have to do it when she's not around, hence it's taking ages.

[Ryan]

Yup - those drives will fit Dan.

I have at least four 2600's and two 2550's sitting outside the console room that I need to get rid of otherwise they're going in the skip.

[wintertidenz]

I have 5 or 6 drives, plus a hotswap one that is spare :) so you could get all servers up and running, albeit with small drives.

Maybe some of the 20GB IDE's could go in there?

[confusis]

well im borrowing my sisters car from the 3rd of dec onwards so i can come pick them up when i go to visit my mum. do you guys want any $ for the parts?

[Ryan]

Nope. Maybe a couple beers though... /yes

[confusis]

dozen tui?

[Ryan]

Sounds good - will split them with Dan & Brad :)

[Ryan]

Here's some of the stuff we're binning Confusis...

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[confusis]

holy ****christ. that looks like heaven to me!
how many of those dell SFF's are there? im planning on starting an internet cafe at some point..

[Ryan]

Well as far as I know they are still there as of today, we've moved them to the workshop area but death for them is imminent.

[confusis]

aww dammit! im not planning on coming to aux till next weekend or maybe last weekend b4 xmas

[bradc]

I can store it all at my place if Ryan gets it.

[Ryan]

LoL - I'm not taking that entire pile of kludge thanks :)

[confusis]

all im after in that pic would be the dells... what are those grey/black systems at the far end of the table? with the yellow stickers?

[bradc]

Any SAS hard drives at all in that pile Ryan?

[confusis]

hey we might as well recycle instead of it going to the tip right? also what is that item next to the grey boxes mentioned earlier, with the horizontal line with the circle in the middle? also, how old are those 1/2u servers?

[Ryan]

all im after in that pic would be the dells... what are those grey/black systems at the far end of the table? with the yellow stickers?

I will see if there any of those SFF Dells left. As for the yellow stickered machines, those are old Dell 2600's.

Brad: I seem to remember that there might be a complete SAS array there... will have a look later this morning.

[confusis]

we're reducing your companies e-waste bill !

if the dells are gone, any other 1ghz+ systems?

[bradc]

Awesome, I'm always after SAS drives!

[Ryan]

Guys I'm sorry to report that everything has gone - was picked up yesterday afternoon! :(

[confusis]

oh poos.

[confusis]

My little CPU collection kind of found the bin during my move. I have an old server here which you can have. It's a P4 @ 2.8GHz with 1GB RAM (DDR) 512kb L2 cache - SCSI cards, AGP slot and also supports IDE. Trouble is I binned my entire SCSI array from my PowerEdge 1400SC so it has no drives.

It's yours too if you want it but I'm not couriering it anywhere. It will probably have to go with Brad or whoever heads out your way.

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ps: Just looked at my list of parts, can added an extra 256MB ram to it.

I'm heading to Auckland either tommorow or friday. I can pick it up if you're ready :)

dozen tui/export ok?

[Ryan]

You have a PM :)

[confusis]

I also need to source 10x power adapters for Compaq Evo T20 thin clients... impossible to find online as far as ive seen

[confusis]

I also need one 'stick' of SODIMM DDR memory for a laptop - 512 or above. Happy to pay for it! Anyone have some sitting around?

[Ryan]

Here you go :D :

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[bradc]

that is ddr2

[Ryan]

Oops, so it is... Oh well, he can still have it if he wants. I have 4 of them of various capacities.

[confusis]

thanks but unfortunately the missus's mums laptop is ddr :/

Lol when I moved in with this family 2 years ago they had a piece of crap old K6-500. Now there's 3 pcs and a laptop plus my server and a couple spare pcs!

[Ryan]

The only DDR ones I have are 256MB and 128MB.

[confusis]

:/ might have to take it if nothing else comes up!

[confusis]

edit: nvm turns out the thins take sdram sodimms:/