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This is where it’s getting.
These processors weren't available for a messly $4 when I bought them for you information, so who's the moron cheapskate now. You think computer hardware is practically free too, which also makes you the moron because you think I can afford to just sell my hardware at an extremely low price like I'm giving it away and that would really make me dumb too. However, that's how dumb you and the idiot who suggested that I sell my server for $100 or $350 want me to be.
You're right, everyone else is wrong, that's why it's still listed over 2 years later when you bumped this to insult people and justify the price.
That same Dell server you mentioned that cost $10,000 probably isn't worth 10% of its original price. The fact that you think 10-25% off hardware from the Ivy Bridge-E era (let that sink in) is worth close to its original retail price (minus 10-25%) is laughable and always was. Even back in 2020. For reference, your CPU's are worth $6.99 now. There is nothing special about any of that hardware and no reason it should retain its value better than anything else.
You're an idiot then because you could have cleaned it up with an anti-static blower and parted out the good parts to sell. I would have told the kid to get a job and if he was really young as in under 18 I would have told him that you don't need a server because it's not a toy and there nothing, but junk on the internet anyway and there's nothing worth looking up on it either as well as go read books about computers in addition to telling them to find the good books on computers not give him a free handout on hardware that costs a fortune. However, apparently I'm the idiot in this situation because I don't give away a server that almost costed $4000 to build away for free and apparently I would be the mean person for not giving some kid a free server too. Anyway though my server hasn't been used hardly at all and your lab server has been running 24 / 7 for who knows how long, so that's a pretty big difference between your story and what I'm selling.
I have exactly TWO pre-broadwell boxes left out of close to 100 in the lab. One is a TORbox (top of rack routing/storage/domain services), and we use it because it has an integrated SAS card on the mobo plus a lot of SATA ports (it's a primary site, so the lifeboat storage location is pretty large). One is an older storage array that we're just eking life out of - once it dies, it'll get replaced by something newer, it's just not worth fiddling with for 6T of hybrid storage if it keeps going (and everything on there is backed up.
Why? I'd have either broken even on the shipping (CPUs), made $5 (the RAM after shipping), or lost money. Not worth the effort. Even the RAM isn't worth parting out - and I sold a LOT of it recently here. Just too old.
What. How do you think most of us built our careers? I was playing with Sparc IPX + IPCs when I was 15, SparcStation 20s when I was 20, and so on. This is how you learn. Toy has a lot of different meanings.
What.
You're joking right? Books? Seriously? Outdated by the time they're PRINTED. Everything is on the internet. I haven't bought a book that wasn't published by a friend or a serious conceptual reference (VXLAN reference was good, as was the new Geneve based one for NSX) in 15 years for good reason. They can't update. That means they're NOT VALUABLE after a year max - just like the hardware loses value. (note, this is reference material I'm talking about - I live on real books and others - tech field moves too fast)
The hardware is cheap. And old. And pretty useless TBH. Can't run ESX8 without a bypass script even.
I never said you'd be mean if you didn't give yours away. I said it's not worth $4000. I buy/sell/trade/move a LOT of hardware - I know what it's worth.
Servers are designed to run 24/7 for a long time - those boxes are fine, minus the wonky PSU firmware (yay prototypes).
So, you're necroing your own thread to let us all know that in the last 2 years you couldn't find a buyer and you're still selling it for the same price (less inflation)? Good on you for sticking to your guns.
It has been two years. How are you still this angry? This thread had passed into the mists of forum history, and now something in your life has inflamed your memory and brought you back… to what? Vent your rage that you asked too much for aging server hardware, which the market itself confirmed by not paying you? Did something wound your pride, and make you feel compelled to defend your decisions all over again?
Heck, my current lab is... well, insane doesn't quite do it justice. Lets just say that we count memory in TB per site - and it's generally more than one digit on that number. And that's all from cast-offs and part-outs.
That makes me moist.
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One cluster in one site - there are more. And no, this is not work - this is a home lab.
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One cluster in one site - there are more. And no, this is not work - this is a home lab.
Writing code against all sorts of app platforms. We’re about to deploy kubernetes into that environment, plus big databases and other stuff. It’s all testing and learning and fiddling.
We've shown you how none of that hardware is worth what you paid for it less 10-25% of its original price. That's NOT how the market works with used computer hardware. What you have isn't worth much more than the total cost of shipping of that hardware. No hardware approaching ten years old would be worth 75-90% of its original purchase price regardless of how little it was used. You are living in a fantasy land.
You're welcome
Oh. I missed this gem. Sec...
We're safe. He can't buy anything else until he offloads this heap.F me. .what did I just read
If the OP is this salty over some old ass server hardware.. imagine him in a few years if he were to attempt to offload a GPU purchased during the previous scalping/gouging era.
He'll endure heart attack level saltiness
I’m sure he is but it’s entertaining none the less,
That's why I give 10 percent to 25 percent off the total price of the everything included, but you fail to see that and expect it to be free.
You gave the same discount 2 years ago. You haven't cut the price at all.
It's been 4 years not 2 years and I'm justifying the price because I'm nice enough to give 10 percent to 25 percent off the total price of what I need to sell all this hardware for as well as tell you how much 10 percent and 25 percent off the price is, so that you don't have to do the math yourselves. Besides the processors still aren't worth no messly $4 to $5 dollars when they go for a minimum of $24.99 each at lowest for retail boxed processors on newegg here Dell 338-BDLN Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 E5-2609 v2 Quad-core (4 Core) 2.50 GHz Processor Upgrade and $77.14 each at the most for retail boxed processors on newegg here Intel Xeon E5-2609 v2 Ivy Bridge-EP 2.5 GHz 10MB L3 Cache LGA 2011 80W BX80635E52609V2 Server Processor , which is exactly what I have included in the listing.
Newegg 3rd party sellers are not acceptable for price comparisons. They are well known for overcharging and sketchiness. Here, have an ebay link: $4.69. Remember, I bought 2697 v2's for $50 each. Used is acceptable when failure replacement cost is so low.
Off of list from 10 years ago. I'll go back to my original point - when I can get Xeon Platinums for relatively cheap now (the first gen Skylake is coming off warranty), why would I buy a 10 year old chip? Back when you tried to sell this they still had some value - software is officially dropping support for Sandy/Ivy at this point, which means the value is effectively zero - can't even use them in a home lab for much longer.
So sell them for that price? If you think you can get it? Almost no one wants processors that old anymore - and those that do need a like-for-like for some poor business reason.
Because I have plenty of those already. I'd rather have them in a rack mount case, or if I'm going to build a workstation out of them (something I'm actually considering), I'll be picking up a ASUS Sage board and putting it in a normal desktop case that's reasonably sized.
We can't. No one can - it just doesn't have any value anymore. It ~might~ in another 10 years or so when it becomes vintage, if there's some reason to run stuff from this era (see also: Pentium Pro, older SPARC, etc) - but that's much less likely with this generation of kit given that emulators and virtualization exist.
Because none of that is useful anymore. And you're still charging a ton for it - a TB of DDR3 is... well, why? The power to energize that isn't worth what you can get out of it these days.
I've only had this hardware for 4 years because I bought it to see if my Intel Xeon E5-2603v2's still worked and they do, so I'm selling this stuff and I need a 1U server that supports only up to 350 watts instead of a 2U server that supports up to 1400 Watts with redundant 700 Watt Power Supplies. I bought the Supermicro X9DAI motherboard because I didn't trust my Gigabyte 7PESH3 anymore after the Intel Xeon E5-2603v2's wouldn't post with an PNY Nvidia Quadro 420 graphics card instead of a PNY Quadro K620 that's included in this listing instead of the PNY Quadro K420. I messed up the 32 GB of WIntec ECC DDR3 from the build that used the 7PESH3 when I accidently grab them like a handle and Wintec doesn't make memory anymore, which I would charge more if they did because Wintec was expensive at around $300 for a 16 GB kit and $600 for a 32 GB kit and more for for a 64 GB kit or higher. I switched to Supermicro motherboards because Supermicro didn't like that I was using a Gigabyte motherboard in their 2U chassis when I RMA'd the original chassis when it was still under warranty.
