Re: Speaking of old hardware

I've had good luck with a drill press and hard disks.   The alternate is 
to take them apart and apply a belt sander to the platter surfaces.

On the other hand, if you manage to get a target event going, please let 
me know, as long as its in a legally reasonable state ( NJ/NY need not 
apply)

alex


Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Chris Adams wrote:
>
>> Seriously though, what do ISPs do with obsolete hardware in general?
>> RaQs don't even have enough sheet metal to make it worth trying to sell
>> them for scrap.  Who wants 10G (and slow) IDE hard drives?  I think the
>> MIPS CPU in my TiVo is more powerful than the one in the RaQ.
>
> We had 1800-got-junk haul away a bunch of stuff like that.  I don't 
> know what they do with it.  I've got a large box full of old 
> small/obsolete/faulty hard drives.  That's even trickier, because some 
> may have data we can't allow to fall into the wrong hands.  I was 
> hoping to put together a shooting event using hard drives as the 
> targets...but at the moment, that's not looking promising.
>
> I hate throwing stuff like that out too, but at some point, a machine 
> with limited CPU, limited RAM, and limited disk space / i/o just isn't 
> worth keeping around.  I suppose if they're not too slow, and too low 
> on RAM, you could deploy them as DNS caches...but how many of those do 
> you really need?
>
>> We're not supposed to just throw it all in the dump, but what else can
>> we do.  We've got a storage unit full of RaQs, MAX 4000s, USR Total
>> Controls, SA600 ATM switches, Cisco 2501s, and more.
>
> Find some idiot who wants to start an ISP and give it to them.  :)
>
> I assume it's all fully depreciated and can't be given away for a tax 
> break?
>
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