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Best way for an individual to sell a server?
I was given a couple of old servers Dell Poweredge 2850 & R510 that were being tossed in a move. So I'm pondering whether to use them or sell them.
First question is, how or where would you sell them, craigslist/ebay/??? Would you sell them whole or piece by piece, drives separately from rack? I haven't looked too closely at the hardware, but it looks typical of midrange systems.
On the other hand, I just moved to SF and set up a static ip for my dsl and would love to play with a home network/nas/server. I'm thinking of installing CentOS. The only prob is that my internet isn't a business class line, so they limit the bandwidth and data that you can use (sonic.net).
Would love to hear thoughts and comments about either option. Thanks.
- makerops 13y agoHave you turned one on in your house/apt? Do that before you make the decision to sell/keep them. They are REALLY loud, and hard to stifle. Craigslist is where I would put them up on though, or a local hackerspace mailing list.
- aceperry 13y agoThanks for the advice. I haven't turned them on, but the dell marketing stuff says that the R510 is pretty quiet. I know how loud they can get though.