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There is a guy with a HP Superdome on my local Craigslist. Here is the link. The lowest he says he will go is 400. Now I cant pay 400 right now.. Just wanna know what yall think? If I buy it could I make money off of it. There are some ebay priced for $10, 000.
hp superdome
If any of yall are interested in it. Ill get it for you. If I can make a lil bit off of it.
what exactly is it?
At this point, about a 1100-1300 pound paperweight. :)
From the picture it is one of the earlier models, so very little re-sale potential as a viable working unit for someone in need of such an animal, but it will contain a fair amount of high end boards for someone local to part out though...
Depending on the model, there is some good resale potential on ebay.
Yea. I talked em down from 800 to 400. Wish I could talk em down more. He says he is selling it for someone else. Im going to keep "pestering" him. Try my best to get around 100. What do you guys think? Whats the most you would pay? Cuz I want it!
Best thing would be to get the exact model number and if possible to have a look at it to see what you will be able to get out of it for parts. Search through the bay's completed listings for the parts and go from there. Only you can determine how much you should pay for it though...
You're wasting your time there Mud. You don't even know what's inside of it, what it's made of. He does, and IF he doesn't, the whole time you're knockin about on it, he's certainly studying into it too, but my guess is, he already knows what is, or isn't there. By the time he agrees to let you have it "cheap", before you ever see it run or look inside, there won't be much to see. Just my opinion
Yea. I may ask to see it. Then go from there.
True that! I just got an HP X800. It has the potential to be a several thousand dollar machine. But this one is only a $600 or so machine. It all depends on what it was ordered with. My machine has the capacity for 96gb of RAM. Yes, 96gb. However, mine has just 6gb in it. It also has the capacity for 4 terabytes of hard drive, but this one had none, and I have now installed a 200gb hard drive. It also has the space for 2 6 core CPUs, however, it only has one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear
See what I am getting at? Every machine is sold separately with basic components, and the upgrades are added.
You will need to get exact specs on that machine before going further.
See if you can get a serial number for the machine from him. You may be able to punch in the serial number and get the specs.
I think he hit the nail on the head there....Quote:
Originally Posted by parrothead
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/q.../11721_div.PDF
You can see there is some crazy potential, but the reality is the it could have 1 processor, very little ram, ect...
You really should have looked at what is in the machine before you even tried to talk him down.
On a separate note, I haven't found ANY superdomes that have sold on Ebay (which is what counts). The few parts that did sell were certainly "newer".
I could find a lot of more profitable things to do with 400.00.
I concur with all above posts.
You could buy 10 older servers with hot swappable power supplies ect and double your money much easier. When you look at a deal.lime that...they need to tell you EXECTLY what is in said machine...they need to know or you do when tiu open it up in order to value it.
I speced out 15 machines last night for a company to possibly purchase from me in about 90 min...you shoukd ve able to open it, know what components are in there...major ones, pull processor and ram and k iw how much is there. .
100 is a good number with scrap and boards you will do good.
Wow! That looks like a lot of fun to take apart. I would be tempted to break even just to see what the insides look like :)
Well he hasnt texted me back. I guess its a no-go. I also saw somebody with one on a local barter facebook page. They wanted $2500! I need to know where they got em. I bet they got em cheap. Then looked them up on ebay. Thought theyd sell for high prices.
The first thing you need to know is what's in it, Mud. Those things can go from 1 single core to 128 dual core processors. They can have from 2GB RAM to over a TB. They can have from 1 PCI wall to 16. You've got to know what's in it before you even think about what it's worth. Until you know what it is, and what to do with it, it's worth no more than scrap
those also run on HP-UX, do you know what that is?
Yea. I understand that. I dont see myself gettin it. He has not replied. I always check whats inside aswell. I learned that long before this post. Thanks to you guys.
Apparently i missed out on something. Ive seen 3 ads for superdomes lately. All local. I wish i knew where they were getting these from! The newest ad i saw. The person is askin 1500 bucks. I texted him. Said he'll never get it no matter what ebay says.
Maybe they're all trying to broker the same unit, lol :)
The CL ad in your original post states he got the machine from MLGW (Memphis Light, Gas, and Water). They may have a bid process for surplus/salvage, or he could be a cousin of the building manager who happened to offer to get rid of it for them...