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Anyone ever sell off legacy storage equipment?

Jun 2, 2005 10:42PM PDT

If so, what type and how did you sell it? Asset management site? Ebay? Newspaper? Newsgroup/IRC/Forum?

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Some gave up.
Jun 2, 2005 10:50PM PDT

For example, some 20 Megabyte hard disk which still works but is the size of washer machine. This is stuff you find hard to dispose of.

There isn't much value in such things unless you need it to keep some legacy item running.

To make matters worse, if they pay you money they rightly want it to work and work for some amount of time. But the service life is long expired.

As such, I try the Ebay route and just dump it. Or I try the Freecycle groups.

Bob

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Along the lines of...
Jun 2, 2005 11:10PM PDT

I hardly sell anyhting like that any more other than maybe ram. From what I've seen(companies/corporations) just give it away to employess rather than pay to be hauled or recycled. If anything it lessens the cost for the real junk or old stuff. More than once some recycle drive gets truck loads in order to fix then disperse to the less forutate, but even that gets whacked with the chunkers than gets dumped on them. A local comm. tech. got a load of usable computers and send it to Bangladlesh(sp) as they were happy to get those and they were used immediately. That's what I've seen here and sure others do the same thing. PC's are a burden after roughly 3yrs, then whatever techology they had is truly bypassed and I'm being generous. Many a system is still usable h/w wise but the new s/w puts the death throes on it.

tada -----Willy Happy