What's in the box?

What's in the box?

original: @ddsbvch translation: @superpupervlad

So what's in it? And why just yesterday is cost more than 15 000$ but today it's cost nothing.

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What the fuck does it mean?

128(!) sticks of RAM, 64 GB each.

So it 8 TB(!) of RAM

And 24 processors, 12 cores each (288 cores in total)

Were in working condition yesterday. Laying in the box, did not bother anyone. In the morning the man with pliers and hammer comes and did the job. With. Each. Piece.

About 5 years ago all these components was purchased for servers for ~200-250 thousand bucks.

Of course after 5 years it becomes outdated and much cheaper but because this is not some cheap shit but a product of one of the best manufacturers these servers could have work for a long time. But...

But a vendor releases a new model and discontinued support of this one a few years ago. So customers that comes for upgrade, get their upgrade. And old components taken away and... guess the right answer:

  1. Donated to schools and universities
  2. Reused by vendor in production
  3. Recycled for extraction of rare-earth elements
  4. JUST GET FUCKING DESTROY BY HAMMER AND THROWN TO THE TRASH

Choose wisely, I'll give you time to think.


Left wing or right wing?

Here you need to decide it for yourself and make your own opinion.

Why this is OK?

  1. Main reason: vendor doesn't want to make secondary market. As I understand if this components was working not for 5 years but for 5 months and customer decided to make an upgrade then components would still be destroyed. Their hardware either new or none. This is the law. btw Dura Lex, sed Lex
  2. These things are belong to corporation and if they want to piss on them live - this their right to do so.
  3. Unique dresses from fashion designer and unsold supercars (I don't know for sure) destroyed just like that. Invisible hand.

And not making secondary market working. Similar CPUs/RAMs selling on ebay apiece but of course in this case nobody needs it. BTW I won't be surprised if part of these lots was spoiled but less noticeable.

Why am I butt-hurting

  1. For the beginning: all 152 destroyed components were working. That means you can put them in a computer and host some minecraft server or whatever you want.
  2. And you could make some really cool stuff for students or universities. 8 TB of RAM doesn't just lying around. Calculate some equations, compute some shit. Here of course comes counter argument: did you realize reputational losses in case:"VENDOR DONATED SERVER TO UNIVERSITY, IT BROKEN, AND UNIVERSITY WILL NOT RECEIVE REFUND"? But even so I think they can make it like: "This is for but if it will broke it's your problems". Again, if one of 128 sticks break down, just take it out.
  3. I don't like principle "If I can't have you, so no one can!". It's not a war where you need to blow up bridges. This is literally bulldozer on a centner of jamon and parmesan at the sight of TV cameras. (explanation)
  4. And as I already said this palm-sized flat square cost more than 1000$ for some reason. There is gold in it. There is cobalt. There is kryptonite. There is graphene oxide. There is stem cells of monkeys. There is liquid photons. All that shit. They can be somehow recycled, reused. Don't just put them in the trash can with pizza crusts and used condoms. We stands for green-eco-recycling, m'kay?


original post: https://t.me/ddsbvch/4189; https://telegra.ph/CHto-v-korobke-10-04

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