As you know, we've replaced all of our hosts over the last few months. We're in talks with a "technology asset recovery" firm about acquiring them, but thought we'd offer them to customers first.

All hard drives have been removed, rails and power cord are included.

Here is the build list. If you are interested, please email service@linode.com. Shipping costs would be added to the prices below (For reference, $50 gets one of our hosts grounded from NJ to Fremont, so coast to coast). The boxes weigh about 40 lbs and are 34x24x9.

(quantities updated 11/09/07):

Build 1: Supermicro 6013P-i, Dual Xeon 2.40 GHz, 3GB RAM -- Price: $200.00, Remaining: 0
Build 2: Supermicro 6013P-i, Dual Xeon 2.66 GHz, 4GB RAM -- Price: $250.00, Remaining: 0
Build 3: Supermicro 6013P-i, Dual Xeon 2.80 GHz, 4GB RAM -- Price: $275.00, Remaining: 0
Build 4: Supermicro 6014H-i, Dual Xeon 2.80 GHz, 4GB RAM -- Price: $325.00, Remaining: 0
Build 5: Supermicro 6014H-i, Dual Xeon 3.00 GHz, 6GB RAM -- Price: $375.00, Remaining: 0
Build 6: Supermicro 6014H-t, Dual Xeon 3.20 GHz, 6GB RAM -- Price: $625.00, Remaining: 0
Build 7: Supermicro 6014H-t, Dual Xeon 3.20 GHz, 8GB RAM -- Price: $700.00, Remaining: 0


-Tom

anyone else in australia and want to buy them, want to do some combined shipping kinda thing?

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Anyone in Holland to share shipping?

Are any of these systems VT enabled?

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No -- all the hosts currently deployed are, but none of these.

This question is purely academic, but why are all drives removed? Is it to insure it can never be said the drives were not properly erased, still containing valid data? I suppose this type of assertion would be hard to refute, after the fact. Just curious...

Thanks,
Hal Williams

Along those lines, yes. The drives are all removed and won't be sold to ensure the security of data placed on them by our customers.

Another issue to consider: Would you really want to start up a production server using already-heavily-used drives?

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At those prices I'm actually looking at getting a server for a desktop replacement!

My only concern is the noise. I can deal with the usual soft hum of a big CPU fan, but I've heard some rack servers that sound like a jet engine.

So 2 questions:

1. Anyone know if these servers are quiet enough to comfortably use as a desktop-replacement?

2. Is this a stupid idea and I should just go pick up commodity desktop hardware from tigerdirect/egghead/etc.?

1) My company uses pretty much the same supermicro boxes as an "appliance". They're loud. I've got one in a closet / data center rack in another bedroom, and it is too loud even in the other room. They're really good at keeping themselves cool though.

2) They only have 8MB of video memory. So not good for anything graphics related.

Not worth it for a desktop PC if you ask me...

Thanks Peter! Hopefully a client of mine will move fast enough I can still pick one up for them.

These are of the jet engine variety. . . I can hear them screaming away through walls.

Hi tasaro, I emailed service@linode.com a few days ago about getting one of the boxes. Have you guys just not had a chance to respond to the emails yet?

Half tempted to pick one of these up. Just built a new Frat house and am needing to setup some sort of network on the cheap.

To be fair, they got back to me instantly. Just a minor mixup.