[plug] Rack Units

[Patrick Coleman]

On 6/14/07, Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions) <daniel at flashware.net> wrote:
> Does anyone have any second hand racks available, for sale? Looking for
> a rack of any size :)
>
> My servers are taking up waaaay too much space, so would be nice to
> mount them.

UWA is selling off some racks on Monday; I've copied the post and
attachment from the UCC list below. I assume this is generally
available, and not just internal UWA.

Otherwise what I did was just hit refresh on eBay for two months until
one came up in Perth (there's heaps in Sydney, but organising freight
is huge). Ended up costing me $30 for a 38RU with back, sides and PDU,
came with an old HP 9000 mainframe and once I cleaned the cat food out
(not kidding) was perfectly serviceable.

I think there were also some other better condition 42RU ones on eBay
then for about $500.

-Patrick

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Maureen McCarthy <Maureen.McCarthy at uwa.edu.au>
Date: 06-Jun-2007 11:43
Subject: FW: List of servers/racks to sell/dispose
To: ITS Staff <ITSStaff at admin.uwa.edu.au>, Paul Wilson
<pwilson at admin.uwa.edu.au>, Andrea Holden <aholden at admin.uwa.edu.au>,
tech-contacts at uwa.edu.au


Good Morning

Please find attached list of equipment for sale.

Monday 18th June, from 2 to 3 pm in the old Media Services Building
(opposite Physics, where the Sims team is now located), the equipment on
the attached listing will go on sale, best offers.

Thanks
Maureen

Maureen McCarthy
Office Administrator
Information Technology Services
 M463
University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009
Telephone 6488 2819
Fax 6488 3861
Email:maureen.mccarthy at uwa.edu.au
Delivery Address
2nd floor Motorola Building
Cnr Fairway and Cooper Street
Crawley WA 6009
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