NA> Do you have server "chop shops" where you live? Thats where I bought my
NA> HP stuff from... http://www.deltaserverstore.com/

Probably, but none that I have used locally.  What I can't get myself or through
friends at other organizations, I normally buy on Ebay.  

I have used GoHardDrive on Ebay several times to buy bulk enterprise HGST
drives.  One of my orders was for (30) 3TB HGST drives.  That weighed a good
bit!

I pulled apart an old SAN at work that had 50 2TB drives in it, which I used to
make an extra backup of one of my RAID arrays.  I still have all those drives
sitting on the floor of my basement.  

I also grabbed (30) 300G SSD drives that were going to get tossed.  Those are
now in use as my "SSD Datastore" in my ESXi server.  The BBS even runs on that
datastore...  eCS and SSD.

I'm in process of re-wiring my patch panels and putting everything in racks. All
the servers and UPS units are in racks, so next is my networking stuff and patch
panels.  I'm using the small modular ones.  All have been re-terminated, but it
is a giant mess which I will clean up once they are in the rack that I still
need to assemble.

It has been awhile since I upgraded my main workstation.  I'm waiting until
prices come back to earth if that ever happens before doing anything, though.

- Mark

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