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Locating Used Sun Enterprise 10000s For Sale?

Posted by Cliff on from the corporate-garage-sales dept.

AtariDatacenter asks: "My employer is having trouble, outside of eBay, locating used Sun Enterprise 10000 servers for sale. (In fact, they approved asking Slashdot for ideas.) Anyone have any good ideas on sourcing used E10ks?"

4 of 27 comments (clear)

  1. Absence of big machines by djweis · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Part of the reason for the scarcity is because Sun (and other companies like Cisco) go to auctions and other places that machines like this are sold used and buy them, either to refurb themselves or to dispose of/sit on. All of the companies going out of business and dumping their equipment is killing the new market. Even if Sun buys a machine for the same cost as they would sell it to you, their numbers look better in terms of new machine sales.

  2. E10k for $200k by uid100 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was verbally quoted a 336mhz equipped E10k for $200k from www.gshiis.com - tell them that ultra-60 from nebraska sent you

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  3. A better question is, why an E10k? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    An E10k is expensive to support and has numerous single points of failure. My company switched from a room full of servers to a handful of E10ks and have had a lot of problems since. If this is a production environment and cost is a factor, I would look hard at other options (E6500, a rack full of E420s, etc)

  4. Value of E3000 by duplicate-nickname · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does anyone know the approximate value of a 2x366 Sun Enterprise 3000?

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