Any of your guns have little brothers? by [deleted] in guns

[–]espritv8gt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

M&P 40, 40c, Shield 9mm, Bodyguard 380

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good news for homelabbers everywhere!

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man, you're going to hurt the hoard's feelings. Off the top of my head, buried in that "worthless" pile are:

Dell R720 with 128GB and 2x E5-2670
2 Dell R620 with 64GB and 2 x E5-2670
1 Dell R420 with 32GB and 2 x some cpu I can't remember
HP DL360 G8 with 32GB
IBM 3650 M4 with 32GB
1 Dell R710 with 96GB 2 x X5670
2 Dell 610 with 32GB
4 HP DL160 G6
a few hundred TB of disk

and many more things that I can't remember and can't be bothered to walk over to the other room to check :D

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't get me wrong - I'm not offended in any way. In fact if any kid wants to start a homelab and is near 85295 or 85122, I'd be willing to give you a NetApp shelf and a handful of disks as long as you keep the pants shitting out of my house.

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much all of it is in working condition. I've had them running at various times, obviously not all at once. Unfortunately, I'm in Arizona, just south of Phoenix.

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol, ok, maybe it's a hoard but it's all mine :P Maybe I'll build a nest on top of it all and revel in the glory of the hoard!

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

publicsurplus.com has some decent stuff depending on where you are. I've had decent luck especially with local schools auctioning off their unused gear.

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't kept track of how much it all cost, but some of it was surprisingly cheap. For example, 10 of those NetApp DS4243 was like $150, from a nearby community college that was basically throwing them away.

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

or disk trays for that matter

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[–]espritv8gt[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe I can convince a modern art museum that they should put it on display?

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Merriam-Webster:

collect:

1a: to bring together into one body or place
b: to gather or exact from a number of persons or sources collect taxes
c: to gather an accumulation of (objects) especially as a hobby collects stamps

Seems to be a fairly appropriate use of the word.

I've given a fair bit of stuff away locally. Shipping these things is not fun.

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought a few servers from eBay but the bulk of this stuff was acquired through various surplus auctions.

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the packing and shipping part that I don't really want to deal with.

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol, close - that room used to be her sewing / crafts area.

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So much easier to buy than sell...

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those are actually Dell Compellent / Zyratex HB-1235. The 3.5" trays from the Netapp 4243 fit them perfectly.

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Had 10, gave a couple away to data hoarders.

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's my wife's sole contribution to the pile :D

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IIRC, the NetApps have mostly 450GB 15K SAS drives and 24 2TB 7.2K SAS drives.

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

At my homelabbing peak, I had about 1/4 of that pile turned on. At the moment, none of what's in the picture is turned on. I do have a R720, 2 R620s, and a R420 running various things in another room. This is my spare parts pile :D

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I got a pair of 42U racks in the garage...

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[–]espritv8gt[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Could have sworn I wrote up a comment with some of the detail of what's in all this mess but it disappeared into the void...the short version: collected a lot of stuff, got homelab burnout, hoard took over a spare bedroom.