What to do with a pile of old rackmount servers

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  1. mairsil

    mairsil Officer at Arms

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    So, I have come into a nice collection of old rackmount server equipment:

    5x Compaq DL320
    2x Compaq DL380
    2x Dell PowerEdge 2550
    1x Penguin Computing 1U server
    1x Compaq StorageWorks
    1x Rack UPS (220V)
    30+ SCSI drives (18-147 GB)

    Unfortunately, these are all old Pentium 3 systems and I don't want to deal with the electricity cost. Anyone know of a good place to try to unload this easily? Are these even worth trying to deal with at all? I did end up getting a hell of a nice 41U rack for free, so trashing them won't be a total loss.
     
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    Ebay or craigslist.
     
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    eBay = not easy. These things weigh probably 300+ lbs.
     
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    Bad_Ad84 The Tick

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    I'd eBay the drives and scrap the rest.
     
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    If I ran into that equipment I would craigslist them for cheap or free. Maybe bundle them all for really cheap and let the next guy take what he wants and pass them on.
     
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