Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-24, 03:14

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Threw a $60 offer at this thing and was accepted. image.png 1-1.jpg 1.2.jpg This thing seems to be INSANE going by the datasheet. It's a two-drive SCSI to PC card device that supports two PC card drives, each on a separate LUN under one ID. It can support them as fixed disks, removable disks or a …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-24, 03:02

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Holy cow... you're selling 2TB drives for $8?? :lol: Well, they are from 2012-2014 and they're SAS6 connector, they won't work on a regular SATA connector. Irritating because I got an old Drobo 8-bay NAS an office was tossing out, unfortunately its backplane is SATA and has the little plastic bit …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-24, 00:18

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I love the server sata6 2012 Hitachi 2tb drives I got off ebay for $15 a piece in 2016? Loud, hardly any power ons but lots of hours but still checkout perfectly today. Every time I find a good Hitachi sata drive I feel like Iv struck gold! I ended up with about 140 seagates and the rest are a mix …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-23, 21:58

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Very nice. Hopefully they still have some decent life left in them. Any fun plans for them? They seem to have a lot of hours but few spinups so are probably mostly good forever till the bearings go, IME drives that don't fail in the first year or so will just go till they don't with an extended …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-23, 21:22

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Bought about 225 of these 2TB SAS drives off a surpluser for C$2 apiece. Now I have to remove the trays and test them all. Filename FjoLMqyWIAIhSek.jpg File size 58.21 KiB Views 1403 views Filename Fjmpy9HX0AArrS6.jpg File size 122.39 KiB Views 1403 views

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-12-19, 08:16

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I don't remember things being this bad a few years ago. Parts are more expensive now AND more likely to be not working. Also so much shit listed as "AS IS" if you check the description (though, per eBay, if its listed in the used category if it doesn't work they are required to refund you. fun fact …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-12-14, 07:46

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Saved from the shredder. Filename 1.png File size 250.47 KiB Views 1637 views Filename 2.png File size 302.48 KiB Views 1637 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-04, 04:35

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Found this ASRock K8Upgrade-VM800 socket 754 board in a PC about to be stripped at the recycler and grabbed it, seemed a pity to let it get shredded. Filename FjG1lV-WAAIyZVa.jpg File size 272.77 KiB Views 1376 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-02, 01:24

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Found it by accident on local auction service. Wrong category, wrong card name. Nobody looked at it. Nobody wanted it. It's in perfect condition, VGA part already tested and it's fine, Audio part detected by NSSI and some games but I have to make a breakout cable (@keropi already provided me with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-30, 22:17

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found this Hoontech SoundTrack i-Phone Digital XG sound card in a parts bin at a source of mine. came with the SPDIF daughtercard. can't complain for a buck. Filename h1.jpg File size 258.51 KiB Views 1757 views Filename h2.jpg File size 83.27 KiB Views 1757 views Filename h3.jpg File size 35.83 …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-11-26, 19:23

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been working at slowly moving a portion of my inventory/collection/hoard/whatever one wants to call it, to the storage garage this past week That looks like heaven to me :-) Very nice collection you have there. Will keep you busy tinkering with old systems for quite some time. haha yeah I have …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-11-26, 08:29

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been working at slowly moving a portion of my inventory/collection/hoard/whatever one wants to call it, to the storage garage this past week g1.jpg g2.jpg g3.jpg g4.jpg g5.jpg goal's to eventually get the garage holding most of the machines and larger items like power supplies, while the loose cards …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-22, 21:30

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Welp, genuine sorry to anyone here who had their eyes on that Asus K7V listed on Big Auction Website, I just bought it for the Big Athlon Project. I'll take good care of it and follow through with any requests anyone has for testing anything regarding it so as to make it in some small way everyone …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-21, 07:29

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luckybob wrote on 2022-11-21, 07:23: I have like a DOZEN boards I can think to put into a box like that.... My GUESS is it was originally built to run an EVGA Classified SR-2 as the waterblocks seem to be for LGA1366.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-21, 07:17

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Grabbed this pointless black double wide ATX server case with a massive 240mm radiator attached to the top and some watercooling blocks, tubes and reservoir installed. For... reasons. Filename 01.jpg File size 69.24 KiB Views 1292 views Filename 02.jpg File size 72.9 KiB Views 1292 views Filename …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-11-17, 04:01

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Where did I find mine: a wiredforservice listing for about $100, ugh. I felt dirty. lol, that is sinking low. But his once ridiculous prices are starting to look more in line with other offerings. On this board the $100 I paid was a basement bargain to be honest. I have not seen one of these for …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-11-17, 02:24

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They're a highly sought after board, but I can't see myself spending that amount of dough on one when I have so much access to junk locally. About two years ago I bought some random stuff from a marketplace listing for $100, and among the stuff was that C-P6ND dual PPro daughtercard for the P65UP5. …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-11-07, 14:10

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Filename pvi-sp3.png File size 342.26 KiB Views 1252 views Oof. The most I'd seen one of these boards go for previously was around $300. Even with a CPU, SCSI card and memory $616 is a massive inflation over previous highs. I have five of these boards, hahaha.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-04, 12:14

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Grabbed this Thinksystem ST550 for $200 off Marketplace. Really had no choice, even though it was a 107km drive. Filename st550_1.jpg File size 126.75 KiB Views 1073 views Filename st550_2.jpg File size 112.57 KiB Views 1073 views

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-11-04, 12:10

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I have been noticing a lot more hardware being sold as untested, as-is, possibly defective and commanding prices which used to be for tested good hardware. I have two dead Voodoo2 cards, so this listing caught my eye: https://www.ebay.com/itm/165733221384 It is an untested Voodoo2 that wold for $95 …

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