CCRcameron 
Hey everybody!
Looking to sell some Dell PowerEdge 2650's, 6600's, and 1 6650.
Anybody buy those around yonder?
~CCRCameron
Hey everybody!
Looking to sell some Dell PowerEdge 2650's, 6600's, and 1 6650.
Anybody buy those around yonder?
~CCRCameron
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Arron other then e bay you just have to spend a lot of time on the phone to find that one reseller who will pay more then scrap value if they have a customer for that machine and if they are not too much of an IT snob to deal with you or me. You know I've sold multi millions of dollars worth of working servers and main frames for a few thousand.
"anyone who thinks scrappin is easy money ain't doin it right!"
Well, Sir...I don't know why you did that, but I understand that you did. I would have liked to see it myself. If it was me, I may have tried to find a local electronics course at the university and spoke to the big directors to buy it for training purposes or for a museum piece to show off. I did that with my 1974 JcPenny Telecom Server. Or at least pieces of it anyway...Did you consider calling the Smithsonian in Washington? They would probably love to have a super computer such as those at the museum. They love that sort of stuff!Originally Posted by olddude
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You'll have two issues:
They are very, very heavy. I have a Dell 2600 in my office that came in. I think it would be over the 70# FedEx limit, which would make it a lot to ship.
The second issue is the age. That server is obsolete to a lot of places, but there are still some firms that I know of that use similar ones.
I'd look into selling it as parts. It'll save a lot on shipping, and I think that IT places will want a certain part more than they will want the entire server.
Just my $0.02
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I contacted a range of potentials including university's. these were not museum pieces but working on net computers. There were 2 major problems 1. The Major IT community is pretty closed knit. Those who will buy from an unknown source (the smaller users) only buy when they absolutely need it kinda like the tight wad who only buys gas when he runs out.
If you go for it ,a sincere good luck. let me know how you come out I get mega super computers a couple times a year top grade stuff from a fortune 100 corp, military grade number crunchers. maybe we both can make some $, I'm not greedy.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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Problem is, even the new low end Dells, which can be had with a 3 year, on site warranty AND an OS for under $1500, are still light years ahead of these machines as far as performance goes.
Also, refurbished servers, good ones at that, can be had for relatively cheap and they're even coming with a warranty.
Old servers are a tough sell. I think you're better off parting them out and see how you do on ebay.
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Older serves are not worth the time to try and sell whole. pull the cpu's and ram. I buy them both depending on what they are. Power supplies have some value too. if your going to do ebay I wouldnt keep more than 4 power supplies of the same kind at any given time. Outside of that some of the SCSi cards have resale value. Most of your ebay business on the older serves are going to come from overseas buyers who are still using this equipment and looking for parts. I have yet to have any luck selling them whole.
New Guy
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Agreed. It's likely better to pull the RAM and PSU and any other add-in cards and try those individually on ebay
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