Packaging Materials

[Xelene]

Hi guys,

I've recently acquired a pair of Dell servers that are reasonably okay and more importantly still under next business day onsite and was thinking of sticking them on a well known auction site. Thing is, i've been googling for a while and can't find anywhere that makes boxes to ship the damn things in. One is like 40kg 2u, the other 1u.

Anyone have any suggestions as to where I could source something like this?

(The models are 1950 & 2970)

 

[Xelene]

Brilliant, thanks guys. My googlefu failed badly on this

I'm assuming courier shipping in the UK will be around £50 per.

 

[Xelene]

Or slap them on a pallet. Have a look at places like interparcel and parcel2go, they normally are pretty competitive on pricing if you don't have an account with someone already.

I don't mind covering the shipping, it's just a couple of servers and a one off really. They should fetch ~£1k each which is pure profit as I got them for nothing. They are both 8 core, 16GB, with SAS drives - so still pretty decent.

 

[Xelene]

Good plan, i'll just set a decent reserve on them and ship them free to the UK. I'd keep them TBH if had the space in the flat, but will use them to pay for a more house friendly machine.