$100 SAN on CraigsList - Thoughts?

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NobleX13

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I am going to take a look at this SAN tonight. In my opinion, $100 is a steal for this unit. In fact, I could probably sell the RAID card on eBay and make a profit. Possibly enough to get a regular SAS HBA and new motherboard for a ZFS build.

Model: American Dynamics ADRSS060TBH
Raid card: 3ware 9650SE-12ML
Redundant Power Supplies
 
IMHO not a big enough steal to make money by flipping it... but a good buy if you want to keep it.
 
idea said:
IMHO not a big enough steal to make money by flipping it... but a good buy if you want to keep it.
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yea, right..... The raid controller card alone new is $630... I'd ebay in for $250 and it'd be sold in 1 day or less

$100 is a steal for this system, even if anything but raid card is trash.
 
Thanks for the comment. I plan on keeping it; at least for the chassis and redundant PSUs if nothing else. I'm not familiar with the Wasabi OS this runs, but it seems usable for my needs.

If you knew how much my local CL usually sucks, this is stellar deal.
 
I'm curious to see what this has for a motherboard in it, and if I can sneak a replacement in its place. I have about zero experience with SAN hardware, except for that time I was running fiber at my old job.
 
NobleX13 said:
I'm curious to see what this has for a motherboard in it, and if I can sneak a replacement in its place. I have about zero experience with SAN hardware, except for that time I was running fiber at my old job.
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This isn't any special SAN hardware. It's a computer with a RAID card...nothing proprietary or custom made.
 
mwroobel said:
http://www.prosecuritys.com/american-dynamics-adrss060tbh.html

Still listed for 12K+ here.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...cs_ADRSS060TBH_iSCSI_RAID_Storage_System.html

Almost 17K here.

I'd buy it in a second, I don't know if this guy knows what he has. If it still has the os and license key installed, you can get more than a 4 grand just for that.
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Not a chance you'll get anywhere near that. Things like this are worth no more than their hardware value, which tends to be quite low. It's worth a couple hundred at best. If you're willing to pay that much for worthless licenses, I have over a dozen network appliances at home that I would be more than glad to sell you.
 
Blue Fox said:
Not a chance you'll get anywhere near that. Things like this are worth no more than their hardware value, which tends to be quite low. It's worth a couple hundred at best. If you're willing to pay that much for worthless licenses, I have over a dozen network appliances at home that I would be more than glad to sell you.
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In most cases I would agree, but American Dynamics is a Tyco Company, and a lot of large companies have a lot invested in existing AD infrastructure, so the licenses are worth a whole lot to upgrade their existing equipment. I could show you an EMC array box with maybe 3K of equipment that will sell for 100K with the licenses installed. This particular box is still a current item. It is part of the Intellix series of surveilance systems. Huge in Casinos, Corporate security and the like. At this price I would say either the current owner has no idea what he has, or it is stolen and/or broken/missing OS/licenses/etc.

http://www.americandynamics.net/products/iSCSI_RAID_Storage_Solution_RSS.aspx
 
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Yes, they'll sell for that much from a distributor to the company. Anyone in the market for one will never buy one second hand.
 
Blue Fox said:
Yes, they'll sell for that much from a distributor to the company. Anyone in the market for one will never buy one second hand.
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I agree 100%. For $100 I would buy it in a second though. Even for $500.
 
Well, I got it! It is currently torn apart on my living room floor, but all-in-all, it was a great buy. The system works and the RAID card is present, so I could not be happier.

It appears that it was so cheap because a fire occurred in the next rack over, clogging the fans with a small amount of soot/smoke residue, but leaving the remainder of the case pristine. I will be replacing these fans as soon as I can locate suitable 30mm replacements that are fairly quiet/lower RPM.

This system has a 2.93 GHz Celeron D CPU and an Intel s3000AHLX motherboard, which my revision can support certain Core 2 Duo/Quad CPUs with a BIOS update that I have yet to perform. Also in the system is 2GB of DDR2 ECC. I might convert this rig to Sandy Bridge with some PCI express ribbon cables, since the stock riser will no longer work.

I am also pondering selling the raid card and getting a couple SAS HBAs to drive the 12 ports I need. Also, all of the drive trays and locking front are there, and both PSUs work.
 
I'd ebay the whole thing.
Keeping those for home use doesn't make sense. They are waaay too noisy - unless u can leave it in your basement.
 
nev_neo said:
I'd ebay the whole thing.
Keeping those for home use doesn't make sense. They are waaay too noisy - unless u can leave it in your basement.
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I politely disagree. My current plan for this system is as follows:

Replace the damaged 30mmx15mm fans with surplus from work, and attach them to a fan controller of some sort to slow them down.

Replace the current motherboard and CPU with a lower-power variant, possibly an ASUS 1155 server board and a Core i3 2100.

Replace the proprietary PCI riser with some PCI-e ribbon cables.

Sell the current RAID card on eBay and replace it with two IBM BR10i cards flashed to IT mode.

Should PSU noise be an issue, I can either mod it or replace it with a slightly quieter and more efficient Seasonic.
 
so you are going to replace: fans, motherboard, cpu, ram (keep in mind 1155=ddr3), psu, raid card

what are you keeping then? the case and hdds?
i would imagine you are selling the parts you are replacing... it would probably be easiest to sell everything as a bundle and take that money to build a file server
 
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