[Info-vax] Alphaserver DS10s for sale

[chris]

On 1/17/23 05:11, gah4 wrote:
> On Monday, January 16, 2023 at 1:50:06 PM UTC-8, Carl Friedberg wrote:
>> Ten years ago I picked up a bunch of AlphaServer RX2600's, all of
>> which eventually were given away, except for 1, which is now dead
>> (presumably I could open it up and change some capacitors and maybe
>> resurrect). All of those 2600's were in the $100 to $300 USD price
>> range, including shipping (maybe in those days UPS was cheaper than it
>> is today).
> 
> Shipping costs have gone up.   I think mine was about $30.
> 
> The T5220 was $18 shipping, from only one state away.
> 
> Otherwise, the RX2600 is Itanium not Alpha.
> 
>> There's nothing cheap today (mostly). Sellers are charging
>> more because they can, I believe. Oh well, it's all for fun anyway.
>> Disks in those boxes are on sleds, which I used to have lying around;
>> not any more. But any SCSI disk would do just fine, in my experience;
>> I had a bunch of 72 GB and 300 Gb lying around. Nothing left now.
>   
> They are SAS SCSI disks, which are slightly rare amount SCSI disks,
> but not all that hard to find.  And mine came with sleds, so I didn't
> have to worry about those.
> 
> Some ship without, and sleds are sometimes hard to find.
> 
> 

I've more or less standardised on 2.5" sas now. Sata are usually
limited to 7200 rpm, whereas sas are 10 or 15K, even 2.5". Much
faster access times and lower rotational latency.

A lot of the 2.5 sas drives around now, as users discard rotating
drives for ssd types. One Ebay seller here in the uk had hundreds
of them, all in boxes, netapp mainly and won 2 lots of 2.5 sas
1200Mb (1.2Tb), 10 in the lot, for around 100 ukp. Some 450 and 600's 
prior to that as well. They have an mtbf of well over 10e6 hours
and not a single duff one here yet...

Chris