We accept donated hardware, including old servers.
Currently, we are in need of Dell R730 power supply units - in case someone has one to spare.
@Codeberg I do have an old PowerEdge 2950 Gen 3 (I think) laying around I no longer use (without drives ofc).
Does guzzle a _lot_ of energy though (even with the single socket setup it has rn) so I doubt it's worth it still, but feel free to let me know if you guys are interested anyways and we can work something out.
Shipping would be from The Netherlands.
Additionally, I have a Dell PowerConnect 2748 as well (comes with 2xSFP 1Gbps fiber optic modules).
@finlaydag33k thank you for the offer. The server seems to be really old. Although we consider to use really old hardware for offsite systems (such as on-demand CI runs), it will realistically take one or two years to get there, and we might have better options by then that are more energy-efficient.
@finlaydag33k Currently, we do not operate the network on our own, so the switch might not immediately be useful. It would be, if we did that.
The only thing we plan to operate is network connection for our Ceph cluster, but it requires higher bandwidth unfortunately. I hope you can find another good use for the switch.
I shared the offer in the infrastructure team nevertheless and we'll get back to you if we can make use of the hardware.
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