FS: Job Lot - 1,464pcs - SG572648FG8RZDG1 - Server Memory Modules - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: ReboundBLC
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2015, 12:24:21 pm
content: HiI have for sale a job lot of the above memory modules. 512MB 244PIN DDR2 SODIMM PC4200 ECC REG.Manufacturer is Smart Modular, I think they are used in Servers. They come 100 per factory sealed box so I will sell in these quantities if necessary.Looking for around £2.00 each ono.ThanksBen

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 07, 2015, 12:43:47 pm
content: Quote from: ReboundBLC on May 07, 2015, 12:24:21 pmGood luck with that... unless it is a price per whole box

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 07, 2015, 04:14:24 pm
content: Sorry to say this, but even at 8 GBP a box, who would really want them? The motherboard would need a bucket load of slots to have any meaningful amount of system memory. And they are old, I think servers of an age like the Dell PowerEdge 2600 would use these. I sure hope they were free as they are probably better off going to the recycler.

author: rob77
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2015, 04:30:00 pm
content: try to sell them on e-bay. but as others mentioned - OLD, SMALL, USELESS - the demand is so low , you'll barely sell few pieces.the only possibility would be if someone in semi-3rd world would need them to upgrade refurbished laptops.

author: eas
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2015, 06:22:09 pm
content: Are those really SO-DIMM?Quote from: rob77 on May 07, 2015, 04:30:00 pmDo any laptops even take registered memory?I agree, it seems like there wouldn't be much market for these. I'd guess that if the price was right, someone might use them for the chips to repair some sort of long-lived equipment that needed ECC reliability. The servers these things were probably originally intended for seem candidates for a forklift upgrade or consolidation/virtualization.

author: ReboundBLC
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 08, 2015, 07:56:01 am
content: Hi, thanks for the replies it is appreciated. These are outside of my main business and didn't cost me anything so it was a bit of a punt. I'll put them in the corner of the warehouse and advertise them online for a few months before scrapping.CheersBen

author: Monittosan
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 08, 2015, 08:15:52 am
content: What would you get for the whole lot at a scraper? Im assuming there is a Gold value to be recovered on these

author: rob77
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 08, 2015, 08:18:46 am
content: Quote from: Monittosan on May 08, 2015, 08:15:52 amyou would spend on chemicals 2 times more than the value of the gold recovered.

author: smjcuk
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 08, 2015, 10:16:59 am
content: No one wants them these days. The market is flooded and no one is buying. We can't even get recyclers to take ours for nothing now as they have to pay to dispose of it too. We have about 500 sticks of similar floating around. Can't even give them away. They're getting shredded soon with a pile of 250 dead hard disks as we're being charged by weight and it's cheaper than the disposal costs.We're buying 16Gb sticks at the moment for servers to give you an idea and they came empty or with two 4Gb sticks in. That's obviously 32x the size but that's the density we need.The only other thing that's worth a few quid is SO-DIMMs for laptops. They have a good consumer market.Also ECC memory won't even POST in some desktop chipsets so there is no consumer market. May be worth contacting someone reselling recycled Dell/HP workstations on ebay to ask if they'd like to buy a chunk of sticks to fill up their sales but that's about it.

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 09, 2015, 10:09:38 am
content: Set them 40 at a time into clear acrylic, make coffee tables out of them and call it the 20Gb Coffee Table ?

author: jlmoon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 11, 2015, 03:25:41 pm
content: Quote from: dexters_lab on May 09, 2015, 10:09:38 amThrow in a few of those 2.5" Drives to make it really interesting.

author: technix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2015, 04:19:30 pm
content: These modules are just too small in capacity to be useful, and BGA chip packaging made desoldering them for another project not really a good idea.If they were TSOP memory chips I may buy a few of them just to desolder and reuse the memory chips on other embedded boards.

author: ReboundBLC
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2015, 10:10:41 am
content: Thanks for all the replies, I'll park them in a corner and forget about them...now on to the 110,000 units (16 pallets) of 1.5 metre HDMI cables...

author: technix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2015, 12:19:29 pm
content: Quote from: ReboundBLC on May 12, 2015, 10:10:41 amIf you don't care about the price, run a firesale and those HDMI cables will quickly go away. Or if you sell new computers too give a few of them for every purchase of a computer that comes with a HDMI port.I am interested in getting a few of those too

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2015, 11:58:14 pm
content: @technix: you can probably buy the same cables for $0.10 in the shop around the corner. I don't buy HDMI or any other cables in the shops over here because I can order better cables directly from China for about 1/5 of the price.The HDMI cables are nice copper recovery scrap.

author: technix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2015, 12:05:19 am
content: Quote from: nctnico on May 12, 2015, 11:58:14 pmMaybe we can figure out a way to run something else on HDMI cables - 4 twisted pair and a few single ended cables, maybe try run Ethernet over it? I think HDMI 1.4 cables are capable of carrying Gigabit or 10Gb Ethernet over it.

author: ReboundBLC
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2015, 10:18:14 am
content: Thanks, HDMI cables are now sold out.

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 13, 2015, 10:49:46 am
content: Quote from: nctnico on May 12, 2015, 11:58:14 pmWhat I can say, ordering them directly from China is not as good deal as it seems. From my experience, most of them are crap and have issues when used with higher resolutions (bitrate). Particularly Mini DP to DP ones sucked a good amount of my blood while I tried troubleshoot for months whats going on intermittently. They use crap connectors, don't connect a shield properly or don't connect it at all...

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2015, 04:23:20 pm
content: You shouldn't buy the cheapest ofcourse...

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 13, 2015, 04:33:17 pm
content: Quote from: nctnico on May 13, 2015, 04:23:20 pmThe issue is you never know the price/quality ratio. If you buy something from china at 2x higher price, quiet often it is the same as the cheapest crap. Unless you can definitely tell that it is a good stuff, that don't pay off very often. And such cables are not of the things where you tell quality easily. For example, when I ordered some cheapest mobile phone spare parts, sometimes happened that high quality original part arrived (no one advertised this). But more often you pay a decent amount of money and cheapest crap arrives.

author: smjcuk
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2015, 07:09:08 am
content: I ordered some ceramic capacitors from HK the other day (close enough to Chinafor a whopping £3. The 470pF ones and the 100nF ones have the same value on my LCR meter and were suspiciously the same size. So, you get what you pay for. Granted they're all within 5% of that 100nF which is pretty damn good for no brand ceramics but I wouldn't expect that from RS or Farnell (unless you buy their generic shite).Lesson learned: Don't buy the cheapest. buy Vishay or something instead. At least the labels are right.

author: eas
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2015, 07:28:37 am
content: Quote from: rob77 on May 08, 2015, 08:18:46 amWhen I was learning more about materials recovery from electronics, the thing that stuck with me is that ground up electronics have a much higher concentration of gold, copper, etc, than the ores it was commercially viable to dig out of the ground, grind up, and refine in order to produce them in the first place. So, at the very least, its probably worth it to someone to throw in their smelter.