Server advice (HP Proliant)

lonsdab · 23 Feb 2009 at 12:02

Hi all.

I recently received 10 x HP Proliant ML350 G4 Servers with 36GB HDDs in them as a company was liquidated and i was asked if i wanted the servers.
I also received some other equipment like soldering stations, oscilloscopes and solid state hard drives (2.5")

The HP Proliant servers have no RAM in them but i was wondering if i put 2GB RAM in them the best way to sell them? Is eBay good or Gumtree? Should i sell them in a seperate lot of all together?
Any advice on this topic would be good.

Thanks in advance.

Sin_Chase · 23 Feb 2009 at 12:08

As a buyer, I would rarely be interested in disks, just the base server.

I would sell the disks separately and the servers as diskless however it may be worth mentioning on the auction that disks are available and link them for anyone who wants a working server solutions.

What options do they have, raid cards, backup drives, redundant power supplies etc?

lonsdab · 23 Feb 2009 at 12:55

Ah ok,

Not sure what you mean about what options they have?

How much do you think each server would cost second hand?

Any more advice of what i need to do to them before i can sell them..

Cheers

Sin_Chase · 23 Feb 2009 at 12:57

I have no idea about costing tbh. Worth what someone is willing to pay is my rule of thumb.

Scrub the drives before selling them, not just format, properly nuke them.

As for options, I listed some. Redundant PSUs, Raid Controllers, battery backup modules/write back caches. Fans in optional slots, optical drives etc etc.

Origin · 23 Feb 2009 at 13:02

If you want to see what options people can buy for them, the are all listed here providing it is a G4 NOT a G4p

lonsdab · 23 Feb 2009 at 13:03

Ok fair enough

Why do thjey need to be scrubbed?

I was looking they are about £2k new, i'd sell for £250 each. I think they are just standard, i noticed they have cd drives etc. in them though

Origin · 23 Feb 2009 at 13:04

lonsdab said:
Ok fair enough

Why do thjey need to be scrubbed?

Data protection, privacy etc. Would you want someone picking up and old drive with your data on it?

lonsdab · 23 Feb 2009 at 13:05

It's not my data and the company was liquidated so any information / data on it will be useless ?

Sin_Chase · 23 Feb 2009 at 13:07

The controller will make a big difference to resale price. Embedded is bog standard/cheapy. It might have a 6400 expansion card in it f.ex which is worth something.

bust them open and have a look. Do the SCSI cables go to the mainboard or a PCI-X card?

K.C. Leblanc · 23 Feb 2009 at 13:08

lonsdab said:
It's not my data and the company was liquidated so any information / data on it will be useless ?

They might have been liquidated, but you still have to consider the privacy of the people they delt with.

lonsdab · 23 Feb 2009 at 13:09

i'll check when i get home, i think it goes to a PCI-X card.

good advice. thanks

lonsdab · 23 Feb 2009 at 13:10

yeh true if i can be bothered

Curiosityx · 23 Feb 2009 at 18:11

Try ringing these guys and see how much they will give you for them, they specialise in buying used IT Equipment and selling it on. You wouldnt believe how much equipment they have in stock.

http://www.moorgateconsulting.com/

fishfishfish · 23 Feb 2009 at 20:01

If you want to nuke the disks, which I'd highly recommend, DBAN is a good choice. It's a Live CD that you insert into the machine and boot from and it wipes all of the installed disks securely. It takes a while on large disks but it's the responsible thing to do.

I've bought two second hand disks recently and neither of them were wiped. Amazing when you think of the fears over identity theft these days...