Sell used servers and storage, by the rack or the row

Server generations and chassis we buy

Rackmount and tower, 1U through 4U, single node and multi node. Dell PowerEdge R and C series, from the R630 and R730 generation forward. HPE ProLiant DL360 and DL380 in Gen9 and Gen10, plus the ML tower line and Apollo chassis. Lenovo ThinkSystem SR series and the older System x line. Cisco UCS B series blades with their chassis, and UCS C series rack nodes. Supermicro barebones and built systems, including twin and storage-dense chassis.

Inside the chassis, the parts that carry most of the value are the processors, the memory and the accelerators: Xeon E5 v3 and v4, Xeon Scalable in first, second and later generations, EPYC, registered DDR4 and DDR5 in quantity, and datacenter GPUs. Loose components in bulk are a lot in their own right. You do not need to reinstall them into chassis first.

What moves the value on an enterprise lot

Configuration first: processor generation and count, memory per node, drive capacity and interface, and whether the accelerators are still fitted. Then quantity behind each identical configuration, because forty matching nodes are a product and forty different ones are a puzzle. Then completeness: rails, caddies, bezels, power supplies and cable management arms are all part of what the next buyer pays for. Then location and dock access, because this category is heavy.

Completeness is a band, not a pass mark. All four of these come out of the same room on the same truck, and the offer says which is which.

We price against what the equipment currently moves for in the wholesale and export market. The offer comes back on the whole lot, against current market conditions. The hub explains how the offer is built across every category.

How a rack pull runs

Four steps, and the third one is where projects slip. Agree the de-rack question in writing before a date goes in the diary.

1. 1

   Send the elevation

   An elevation, a spreadsheet, or pictures of the front and back of each cabinet. Model and configuration matter far more than a tidy format.

2. 2

   We say what stays

   Compute and storage we buy. Switches, routers and firewalls we do not, even when they are bolted into the same cabinet. You know before the truck is booked, not on the day.

3. 3

   We agree who unracks

   Your team de-racks ahead of the window, or the units come out of the cabinets on the collection day with your facilities team present. We do not supply de-racking labor.

4. 4

   We book the freight and settle

   Loaded weight and dock access drive the freight plan. Settlement lands 3 to 5 business days after verified receipt, by ACH or wire transfer.

We book the carrier, we supply the pallets and the wrap, and we arrange a liftgate where the building has no dock. We do not operate our own trucks. Who pays for what is set out here, and insurance and settlement terms sit on the payment and insurance page.

Questions about server and storage lots

Do the servers need to be out of the rack before you collect?

Not necessarily. We take equipment racked, de-racked, or still cabled, and we take whole rooms and part rooms. Tell us which state it will be in when we arrive so the freight is planned for the right weight and footprint. Compute and storage leave with us. Empty cabinets, bare rails on their own, power distribution strips and UPS units stay with the building. Rails, caddies, bezels and power supplies that belong to a chassis travel with that chassis.

Who supplies the labor to pull the units out of the cabinets?

Your team de-racks ahead of the window, or the units come out of the cabinets on the collection day with your facilities team present. We do not supply de-racking labor. Either way, agree it before the date is booked. A crew arriving to find forty cabinets still cabled is the single most common reason a collection slips a week.

Will you buy the switches in the same cabinet?

No. We buy computing hardware: servers, storage, drives, memory and the chassis they sit in. We do not buy switches, routers, firewalls, chargers or accessories. If the cabinet is mixed, we take the compute and storage out of it and tell you plainly what stays.

What if the drives have already been pulled and destroyed?

That is a common starting point and it is priced as a drive-less lot. Send the caddy count as well as the chassis count, because empty caddies matter to the next buyer. What we can and cannot certify about drives is set out on the data handling page.

Do you take equipment that failed or was pulled for a fault?

Yes. Non-working chassis, failed controllers and dead drives go in the same lot as the rest. Marking which units failed and why is useful, but it is not a condition of the offer.

Can you handle a whole room in one move?

That is the normal shape of these lots, and clearing a full room has its own page covering the project side. This page covers what the hardware itself is worth to us.