Subj : Re: Closing up Telnet
To   : Nick Andre
From : Mark Hofmann
Date : Mon Mar 21 2022 20:09:48


NA> Do you have server "chop shops" where you live? Thats where I bought my
NA> HP stuff from... http://www.deltaserverstore.com/

Probably, but none that I have used locally.  What I can't get myself or through friends at other organizations, I normally buy on Ebay.  

I have used GoHardDrive on Ebay several times to buy bulk enterprise HGST drives.  One of my orders was for (30) 3TB HGST drives.  That weighed a good bit!

I pulled apart an old SAN at work that had 50 2TB drives in it, which I used to make an extra backup of one of my RAID arrays.  I still have all those drives sitting on the floor of my basement.  

I also grabbed (30) 300G SSD drives that were going to get tossed.  Those are now in use as my "SSD Datastore" in my ESXi server.  The BBS even runs on that datastore...  eCS and SSD.

I'm in process of re-wiring my patch panels and putting everything in racks. All the servers and UPS units are in racks, so next is my networking stuff and patch panels.  I'm using the small modular ones.  All have been re-terminated, but it is a giant mess which I will clean up once they are in the rack that I still need to assemble.

It has been awhile since I upgraded my main workstation.  I'm waiting until prices come back to earth if that ever happens before doing anything, though.

- Mark

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