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6 servers were decomissioned, Iwas able to only get the disks, RAM, CPUs and Network Card.
The total of this is : 88 x 8TB SAS disks 44 x 16GB RAM sticks (half 2133, half 2400) 6 x v3 Xeon e3 2630 6 x v4 Xeon e5 2640 3 x 10 GB PCIe dual port cards 12 x 1U heatsink
I'm really lucky to have all of these, even if I don't have a use for all of that for now (except some of the disks)
EDIT: Forgot to mention: All of this for free, I work in a datacenter!
88 x 8TB drives? 704 TB of storage?
You got a whole damn data center lol. Good stuff dude. Was this off of ebay or direct from a company? I'm curious to know the total cost.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention: All of this for free at my work, I work in a datacenter!
Somewhere, an ISO27001 auditor’s jimmies started rustling.
Do you think it’s possible for old decommissioned drives to be donated in a compliant manner?
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It certainly is. ISO 27001 is a framework, not very prescriptive at all. Basically an auditor will ask "how do you ensure data isn't leaving your facility in the form of discarded hardware?" If you say "here's a link to our media destruction policy. It says all drives are wiped according to NIST 800-88 cryptographic erasure. If that is not possible or not applicable, the drive is destroyed. Here's our log of decomissioned equipment" chances are very good they'll say "OK great let's move on to the next one" with only minor followup questions.
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I recognize there’s a likelihood you are usually being paid for answers like that. Thank you for satisfying my curiosity for free :)
Absolutely, and it’s usually up to the organization disposing of the drives to set and document the standard by which they abide.
Thanks :)
Well now im very jealous lol. Good for you man, thats a banger deal.
My Jellyfin is also running media from recycled HDDs from work. No where near this impressive haul, but it was nice to be able to get a solid 10 TBs for free to get my server going.
My server got updated a lot, starting with a single 1 TB disk, the a single 4TB disk, to 6 4tb disks and now it will be 10 8TB disks
That, is a pretty good deal. Better start picking up some MD1200s!
I have my eyes on some fiber channel stuff that got decomissionned, I'll probably try something with that