RadiSys medical servers

I was offered a set of 10 or so working servers. These are RadiSys RMS-002. I was told they all have reformatted harddrives with a fresh install of Win XP and were originally hooked up to some type of medical equipment (CT scans maybe, not sure). I am trying to figure out what value they might have beyond scrap as complete units. That is, if I do get them, I prefer not to take them apart, at least not at first. I did a little bit of searching on the Web but found very little info about them. Got one hit on eBay.

Since this is medical equipment, I would most likely want to either wipe or completely remove the harddrives, just to be safe.



Do you have any experience reselling those as whole units? What type of buyer might be interested in them? If you did take them apart to sell for parts, were there any parts that were especially valuable?

Thx

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

If it's been done once then a second time should not help.

Well I don't know how thoroughly they were wiped the first time. Prefer to be a bit more paranoid in this case since the drives probably help medical data before.

Well, I got them the other day. They are old and underpowered but I checked eBay and it looks like I might be able to get a few bucks selling the parts, particularly motherboards. Similar ones sold, some as mobos only others with RAM and CPU which is what I wanted to do. But then I ran into an interesting problem: to take the mobo off the steel chassis, I had to remove the heatsinks. They came off together with the CPUs (I posted a few photos here). Now that the mobo is detached, I want to reattach the CPUs but I am not sure how to do that right. Do I need to pull the CPUs off the heatsinks, inserts them into their slots, then reattach the sinks? Would I need to use new thermal compound to reattach? Or should I simply post the mobo and CPUs/heatsinks detached in the same eBay auction? Thx

Originally Posted by armygreywolf

Aren't they HEAVILY shielded?

Sorry don't know what shielding means

Originally Posted by olddude

I've posted a couple of times about the danger in investing in Servers, and selling them. Got to do your research before you buy them sorry. mcw

Got them for free, just gas and time to pick up.

Tried to sell one motherboard on eBay. Two auction cycles, a couple of watchers but no bids. Decided I need space so scrapping the servers. Still profitable, just not as much as I was hoping.

At least you weren't in them for much. If the CPU or RAM isn't soldered on, you may be able to see just that.

If the hard drives have been DoD wiped, I'd bet that they could sell. One will fit into a small flat rate box usually.