I’ve been slowly working through the pile of rubble near the server rack / fasteners / electronics components. We have quite a bit of computer and network paraphernalia. Much more than I think we could reasonably need. I’d like to thin this down to no more than 25%, keeping a small variety of the best & most useful stuff. I will start doing this over the next two weeks unless there are objections.
Honestly if someone has a use for some of this stuff, you should just take it and pay what you want in the donation box.
Hard Drives
A couple dozen 3.25" ones, and there’s gotta be like 50+ of the 2.5" ones, all identical I think.
I didn’t sort through these yet, but there are lots of them!
Heat sinks, fans, water cooling
I think these are generally useful for projects, so we should probably keep a good supply of them. I’ve been putting them with other large electronics components above the new VHS-ARC bench near the laser.
Networking
A big box of exotic connectors that we don’t have any transceivers for. Fiber, probably some infiniband, etc.
Some cisco devices, a couple 100Base-T switches, a half dozen cheapo routers, and a tiny 10Base-T hub!!
Keep the sas/sata harddrives, and keep one 2.5" ide drive and one 3.5" drive, get rid of the rest.
Toss the 100mb switches, keep the 1gb switches and the wireless routers.
Keep the watercooling, it’s mine, i’ll take it home if it’s an issue.
Keep the fans and heatsinks, they are usefull for all sorts of projects.
Toss the exotic connectors.
Toss all the agp videocards, except the best one.
Toss the soundcards, and any 56k modems.
I had bought a shit ton of clear bins and the black collapsible shelves to store all of the computery stuff.
Yesterday I put a bunch of stuff in the three week bin. After it festers there for a bit I’ll organize a run to Free Geek (unless someone else beats me to it).
I got rid of at least 2/3 of the hard drives, but kept a good variety of SATA/IDE drives. I didn’t toss any SAS ones, or server sled hardware.
Someone else already went through the audio and video cards. I thinned the NIC cards down a little bit and tossed some of the 10/100 ones, but kept a good variety of types and chipsets.
The weird cables are gone. The cheapest of the routers/switches/hubs are gone. I kept all the rackmount stuff though, and all the Cisco stuff.
I was probably too conservative and still kept too much stuff.