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Hello all, I have been directed to this subreddit because I have recently acquired around 10000lbs of "scrap" computer servers from a friend's father who retired and didn't want to spend the time to sell the equipment.

I have 20-30 old sun r220s, a few r420s, around 8 sun storedge a5100 and a5200 some dell poweredge 1750s, some ibm poweredge xa35s, all the associated equipment to run the stuff - firewalls, battery backups, networking chips, server racks, 200+ loose drives (used and new) excluding what was already installed in the equipment, software install discs, manuals etc.

As far as I was told everything is functional aside from two of the storedge arrays, which are marked and separate.

I have not finished picking everything up, I still have two truckloads to go (I've already picked up four), i don't know the market and am making a genuine effort to understand what I have, and why it would still be relevant due to its age.

I will not be selling anything until I have a better understanding of what I have, and have spent the time to catalogue everything. I work in construction, I am not a tech guy, but I was hoping this sub could point me in the right direction on how to educate myself as to why this equipment would still have value, and what people still use it for.

Thanks in advance!