Looking For Advice On HP Servers

[thefishbowlstudio]

Hi everyone,

I was looking for some advice.

I recently acquired 5 HP DL380 G6 servers from a company which hosted services at a DR site.

The question Im asking is how much would be a realistic price to resell these servers?

Firstly let me list the details.

They are:

HP DL380 G6's

Dual processors with quad core Intel Xeon X5550 2.67Ghz.
They do not have any RAM but at the time of production could take 144GB of RAM.
They do not have any hard drives but have 8 drive bays which can take sata or sas drives.
They also have dual power supplies.
They also have 4 Gigabit Ethernet network cards.
They also have dual fibre networks cards.
They also come with the rack mount rail kit.

PLEASE NOTE!!

THESE ARE EX-DR SERVERS WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN USED OR TURNED ON!! THEY ARE AS CLOSE TO BRAND NEW AS YOU CAN GET. HENCE NO HARD DRIVES OR RAM.

Im thinking R10k per server...is this a realistic number?

Thanks for your input

 

[tathams]

Not really. As they have no ram or disk drives few people can buy them and put them to work straight away. Unless they happen to have spare ram and drives lying around to populate the units they buy from you.
You may be lucky and someone is looking for spares so they may take one or two.
Due to the lack of ram and drives I would expect you to get three to four thousand each.
No one likes a prophet of doom but that is my 2cents worth. Hopefully you may yield more.
And no I don't wish to buy any as to source drives and ram may be rather expensive and take a year or two looking for 2nd hand bits.

 

[Wasabee!]

How old are they? Any warranty left?

 

[thefishbowlstudio]

Hi there,

Aplogies for the late reply.

Thanks for your input on this.

I see your point on the hard drives and ram only question though....surely you can just use normal ram...its be DDR3 ram no? Also the drives can be normal SATA drives or SAS drives....obviously if you want you can easily get HP original drives.

Personally if I bought a second hand machine I would replace the hard drive anyway as they generally tend to fail after a while any way.

Anyways thank again for your input.

 

[thefishbowlstudio]

They are generation 6 so I think about 4 or 5 years...but again these are Ex-DR and where bought for capacity purposes....they literally have not ever been used....as close to brand new as it gets!!

No HP warranty but if they fail within 6 months Ill either replace or give your money back...