why come datacenter shit never retires to the public market? i only ever see disk drives pop up on serverpartdeals or ebay.are they destroying everything else?
>>107256655wouldnt the public market just be whatever employee wants to upgrade their home setup its an interesting question but that seems like the obvious answer
>>107256678seems like if you're depleting the entire public market of everything, you're going to have an awful lot of surplus equipment being replaced.
>>107256655They trash it.Same reason why supermarkets lock up their trash containers so homeless people can't get the food.
Usually gets shipped off somewhere from my experience
>>107256655>are they destroying everything else?
>>107256655Yeah, most of it gets destroyed. Kind of depressing if you like old hardware, but that’s the reality.Big datacenters treat almost everything as sensitive. Not just drives. Anything that ever touched production can be considered a risk. Servers hold configs, keys, logs, firmware histories, weird proprietary add-ons. Even if you wipe it, there’s still paranoia about some leftover trace or someone pulling firmware dumps.Couple other reasons:Vendors push refresh cycles. A lot of companies lease hardware. When the lease ends, the vendor takes it back and scrapes it for parts.Some gear just isn’t worth reselling. Proprietary blades, custom interconnects, oddball chassis designs. Nobody at home wants a 4U monster that draws 600 watts while idle.Drives are easy to wipe and resell. Low risk, high demand, small to ship.Old networking gear sometimes shows up, but usually smaller companies resell that, not hyperscalers.There are recyclers who tear everything apart for copper, aluminum, and precious metals. Cheaper and lower risk than testing and reselling whole systems.If you're trying to find something specific, tell me what kind of hardware you’re hunting for. I can help narrow down where it actually pops up.
>>107256923To be fair, your video is from ORNL.
>>107256655Because they just give that to re-sellers that sell crappier cheaper servers while they start offering more modern hardware.https://www.kimsufi.com/en/https://server4you.com/
>>107256655half of it is resold to smaller companies, resellers, or it shits in a fucking warehouse decomissioned for years until they write it off or sell it for stupid cheap
>>107256931>Nobody at home wants a 4U monster that draws 600 watts while idle.>>>/hsg/
>>107256713ai-written posts should warrant a ban
>>107256738I hate corpos so much it's unreal.
>>107256923Trump administration is supposedly ripping magnets out of hard drives for their military since they got hit by chink magnet sanctions.This is why also he's so mental about steam vs magnet catapults on carriers kek.
>>107256655>the public marketi see this shit on facebook marketplace all the time
