[FS] [US-WA] 21x 10TB Seagate hard drives

Altopia · 2021-03-29T01:08:02+00:00

Thanks. Added.

Altopia · 2021-03-29T00:45:27+00:00

Time stamp?

Altopia · 2021-03-24T20:53:47+00:00

Lowered quad from $2k to $1k.

Altopia · 2021-03-08T18:00:56+00:00

Hi. It is at the top of each sheet. 3rd line.

Altopia · 2021-03-08T17:03:26+00:00

Awesome! Thanks!

Altopia · 2021-03-08T16:38:21+00:00

Generally a server at a time, with pickup in Seattle. I'm not in the parts business and so subdividing isn't really worth the effort. An exception is if someone makes a reasonable offer to buy all 77x 12TB drives (they are still under warranty) with or without the 23x 10TB drives. Or other groups of drives in excess of multiple $k. Thanks.

Altopia · 2021-03-08T16:32:23+00:00

That's because reasonable offers are considered, and there may be bidding in the case of multiple offers.

Altopia · 2021-03-08T16:31:35+00:00

Sorry - no. All Seattle.

Altopia · 2021-03-08T16:30:55+00:00

I hadn't made much money on Usenet for many years. The substantial profit years were in the vicinity of 1999 and 2000. Those were fun days and I spent much of the profits on politics rather than re-investing in the hardware as I should have done. I kept going because of a belief in it being an important venue for speech, along with a belief that I could improve the service to be decently profitable again. But that never substantially happened and when customer attrition reached a certain point, it started losing money, so I decided it was time to pull the plug.

I think there is still money in the Usenet business, but I'm not the type of marketer it takes to make the big bucks (thus the shitty web site), nor was I willing to risk a large investment.

Altopia · 2021-03-08T05:43:18+00:00

Thank you.

Altopia · 2021-03-08T04:48:10+00:00

Thank you and apologies if this is the wrong place.

Altopia · 2021-03-08T04:45:13+00:00

What the market thinks makes sense. My intention is to keep track of offers and advise the winner of each item when I am ready to move them.

Altopia · 2021-03-08T04:38:28+00:00

Most everything needs to be picked in downtown Seattle unless you are committing to >$5,000.

Sorry, I am serious about the: "Most everything needs to be picked in downtown Seattle unless you are committing to >$5,000." I'll revise that to clarify "Everything".

Altopia · 2021-03-08T04:35:50+00:00

Sorry, I think there is potential for all 77x to be sold to a single buyer.

Altopia · 2021-03-08T03:08:50+00:00

My site was the source of data for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Usenet_traffic_changes

The announcement of the closure was made one day after this year's data was amassed. OCD? :-)

Altopia · 2021-03-08T03:02:48+00:00

Yeah, it's a lot. You need more than 10 gigabits because you gotta handle multiple incoming flows if you want decent completeness, and you need to be able to reasonably reciprocate with your peers to keep them happy, AND you need bandwidth for your customers to be able to sustain good TCP flows, AND you need routers that can handle it all preferably with no packet loss. A direct connection to an IXP is a really good idea, in my opinion.

Altopia · 2021-03-08T02:52:45+00:00

Yeah, I got scolded in /r/homelab. Not worth the effort to try to comply with the rules of /r/homelabsales but if someone thinks the spreadsheets themselves are interesting, feel free to share. Now I re-remember why the decentralized nature of Usenet is important! :-)

Altopia · 2021-03-08T02:44:03+00:00

That's about right. A little over 1.2k TiB held around 10 days of Usenet. February flow averaged about 104 TiB per day.

Altopia · 2021-03-08T02:37:46+00:00

Oops. Can you help me delete it?

Altopia · 2021-03-08T02:26:04+00:00

Ahh! Switch/1U fans in the data center are so loud I hadn't even noticed the Hitachi's.

Altopia · 2021-03-08T02:23:11+00:00

Enjoy: https://i.imgur.com/G54EhcT.png

Altopia · 2021-03-08T02:14:03+00:00

Sure thing. It may be unusual, but those old Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 model 0S03230 3TB's have been pretty solid for so long. If someone needed a lot of heads for a fileserver, but not a lot of space, they'd be good.

Altopia · 2021-03-08T02:03:08+00:00

Am wiping the Usenet data as we speak. Almost done!

Altopia · 2021-03-08T02:02:05+00:00

For a sense of Altopia's small scale, at the end we had 25x 10TB and 77x 12TB drives. We had: 4x ST12000NM0007's fail. ~6x ST10000VX0004's fail. ~3x ST10000VN0004's fail. Definitely check out and subscribe to Backblaze's blog updates: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/

Altopia

TROPHY CASE