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)?

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.

[CANDEE]

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

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

[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

[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...