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eBay off-lease decomission (= ultra cheap HW) thread
Let's see for an ebay etc. thread 
Most of this is ex-Amazon AWS hardware (Dell, Quanta switches - they have a MAC desc of "Quanta/Amazon"), Quanta servers should be either Rackspace or AWS. HP servers have many origins but larger QTY are occasionally Leaseweb.
Sellers can be trusted MOSTLY, use PayPal just in case. As usual sadly up to 100$ domestic shipping but some have free even for servers.
Based on shipping location (mostly central and west US) this means AWS upgraded US-WEST* or sold off the hardware westwards for US-EAST, but anyway:
Dual 2011 1.5U Quanta single PSUs servers + 2x E6-2670 v1 w/ no RAM or HDDs
http://www.natex.us/Quanta-QSSC-2ML-Dual-LGA2011-Sockets-16-DIMM-1u-R-p/spd-6.htm Board/CPU/etc. 99$
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-SR0KX-LGA2011-Server-8-Core-Xeon-E5-2670-2-60GHz-CPU-/142176014581 79$
LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 8308ELP - Good older chip, can be used in IT mode. Works fine as HBA.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171445322292 - 31$
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182293967018 - 40$ list, accepted 35$ for higher QTY
Supermicro X8DTU-F w/ Dual E5620 & some RAM in SM single PSU 1U w/ inner rails only
http://www.ebay.com/itm/331951097561 - Accepted 135$ offer on higher QTY
Hewlett Packard HP 468405-002 487738-001 24-Bay 3GB SAS Expander Card - These are the same as Intel expanders but need PCIe for power (no data). Expands 1-2 SAS ports to up to 5.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/331951097561 - 45$
HP ProLiant DL360 G7 2x E5649 6C 2.53GHZ, 24GB RAM, 2X460W PSU, W/CACHE, 1X NIC - This is G7 which is usually a bit more expensive but changes are useless, this is a bit under G6 price actually.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/232083994508 - 170$
SUPERMICRO 4U 24-BAY 846E1-R900B X8DTE-F 2x E5620 8GB 24x TRAYS ASR 5805 - 24x 3.5" w/ support of up to 2TB HDDs, some RAID controller and some RAM/CPUs
http://www.ebay.com/itm/201670419961 - 277$
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERMICRO-4U-24-BAY-846E1-R900B-BAREBONE-SERVER-CHASSIS-WITH-24x-TRAYS-/172315518085 - 129$ Case w/ trays and PSUs only
Quanta LB6M 24 Port 10GB Multilayer switch - 24x10GE SPF switch and some 1GE copper ports, not much config although technically opensource and openfabric. Does L2 by default and L3/VLANs via CLI config. By FAR cheapest 10G switch option atm, both used and new.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/152020333438 - 260$
http://www.ebay.com/itm/152105773237 - Accepted 275$
Chelsio 110-1047-20 10Gb Single Port PCI-E Ethernet Network Adapter - Second gen 10G card, Terminator 3 chipset which runs on nearly anything outside OSX and older FBSD kernels. Excellent cards, we used like 30 of them (mostly dual port though) by now with no issues.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/172264490540 - 10$ list price, Accepted offer of 9$ on larger QTY (25+ likely reqd)
Adding more stuff as i buy/find....
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So nice! If I just had a use and the room for it...
Our crap fills half a house near LAX by now... no idea what to do with it, somehow need to ship a container to Rotterdam or Croatia i guess.
However, at the EU pricing difference it makes sense for me to even just store 10 of the 24 bay servers - i GUARANTEE the case + PSUs alone sell for 500EUR MINIMUM (i have seen 1000EUR!!+) in EU...
Holy crap!
So you are mainly buying this stuff to resell it after importing?
Oh, before I forget: Nice theory about the origin of this hardware!
No, i offset my shipping costs by the profit (a container space of 3x3x1m is at least 500EUR to Croatia).
Mostly not a theory, AWS confirmed a lot of origin and the switches have literally logos removed and MAC still identifies as Amazon block from Quanta
this is really cheap.
For HP and G7 - yes. Generally for generation no, these sell for 100-150$ as SM servers but usually single PSU. TBH i would go with HP as well though except some series (DL320 G8+, DL580 G6-, any *5 so AMD system, especially quad CPU)
best price for a hp g8 with 24 slots ram ? a dual one ? any price ? for exemple dl380p...
About 300EUR with no CPU, PSUs and 4 trays for a LFF/3.5" DL360e however they are too new so you pay full EU import price on retail price to most countries. DL360p are higher priced but make no sense; sometimes you can grab DL380 Gen8 cheaply also but as always DL360 is the easiest.
G8 fits G6+ PSUs so should be fine.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-ProLiant-DL360e-Gen8-LFF-3-5-Barebones-No-CPU-RAM-HDD-RAID-Controller-/182281786286
I can give you an EU seller which is not much higher priced (in Belgium) but you need a French speaker or this will be a massive hassle.
That 2011 stuff is tempting. Was considering those parts but I could only find some more expensive ones.
Keep in mind:
However, for less than 200$ still a steal. For 100$ not even worth thinking much...
Also not bad, same storage chassis with 24x2TB Seagate SAS (ST32000444SS, presumably used) @ 999$:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/4U-Supermicro-24-Storage-Server-2x-Xeon-Quad-Core-24-x-2TB-SAS-HW-RAID-2PS-/152302225920
Comes out to about 42$ per HDD and a free chassis etc.
I sincerely wish these were in the EU.
If you have a few months time.. i need a container anyway...
Your country is a BIT hard to reach by sea currently though, can re-ship by GLS from RTD though fine (they pick it up after customs and ship it on, just need to mark the box in LA and add other invoices).
Makes only sense for larger QTY and if i do not make the mistake of @randvegeta and ship to damn Lithuania :')
We have a bunch of retired Supermicro half-depth servers running Intel Xeon L5420s with anywhere from 8GB to 24GB of RAM.
If anyone is interested, we'd be willing to sell them for $20 each plus the cost of shipping.
Power hungry and not too good heat wise but working monsters that rarely break, at 20$ pretty neat - located where? Ohio has cheap power colo, as does Nevada and some eastern states.
@BrianHarrison - where? Post full list, quantity, location, etc.
These are located in Seattle, WA.
I should also mention that while these systems were working pulls and have been tested, at $20 a pop we don't want to deal with returns so this would be an 'as-is' sale. These can be shipped with insurance, but of course that'd increase the shipping cost.
We'd also prioritize buyers who were willing to take bulk. We just want these servers out of here at a minimum of hassle.
It'll take me some time to inventory everything and I'm a bit swamped with work today, but if anyone's interested feel free to shoot me a PM and I'll make sure to follow up.
That's for a video transcoding workstation, so I guess it's OK for me -- honestly I'd prefer even larger form factor if there's any in the similar range.
If you don't need 10G the SFP+ slot accepts a SFP-RJ45 Gbit module just fine and runs Gbit with that.
Better to look into GPU for video transcoding, only Kaby Lake does h265 efficient in CPU hardware but Nvidia does it natively since long time now.
We have 32x 1U SuperMicro systems in Atlanta:
We are only interested in selling as a lot. We can wrap and strap to a pallet and ship to continental US-based destinations. Buyer pays shipping.
Open to reasonable offers.
Hmm... this mobo does not have an RJ45 LAN? I hope the SFP-RJ45 module is not going to be pretty expensive. Or, maybe I can fit a cheap 2-port Gbe on it with a raiser?
Regarding to GPU -- no, x265 does not support GPU encoding, and it's the only choice so far that provides the best quality efficiency.
No, no RJ45. The adapters cost about 10$ so not an issue.
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I live near your datacenter, possible to just waltz in there an possibly get one
. I love having spare compute around my house.
WHY DOES THE EDIT BUTTON DO THIS TO ME!
I'm intrigued now considering most encoding we do is just simple x264->x264 (eg. BluRay to MKV container with x264 or 1080p MKV w/ x264 -> 720p x264 in MP4/MKV) - what speeds up more, cores or single core clock speed?
Do you have something to test that? Encode the same file and measure time? With disabled HW encoding to force only x86-64 instruction set usage if any other HW modules are present?
I would like to run it on a X5694 (2 cores at 4.4Ghz each base, no turbo but can be enabled to 4.9Ghz) and a E7 system (4 CPUs @ 10 cores + HT, so 40 cores/80 threads at 2.4 Ghz base and 2.8Ghz turbo, E7-4870 - ironically named like a GPU i once had that also generated a lot of heat lol)
As reference, on my Mac Pro 5.1 (2 X5675 @ 3.06Ghz, 12 cores + 12 HT, bench ~13k) i saw not much difference to my former 4.1 (1x W3680 @ 3.33Ghz, 6 cores + 6 HT, bench ~9.3k) within x264 1080p to x264 720p in Handbrake (not sure what backend encoder it uses but it does multi core).
Not really looking to sell them one-off. If you want all 32, let me know...
I wish there were cheap deals for decent SM servers in ebay Europe.
Does anyone know if these have iLO advanced cards in them? And where to get cheap rails?
TIA
:-)