Supermicro hardware up for grabs

Published August 19th, 2011 by Barney Desmond

In the last year or so Anchor has been making a strong push towards energy-efficient Dell hardware and VPSes. As a result, we find ourselves with a collection of older Supermicro servers on our hands that still perform well, but aren’t viable to sell to customers any more.

Rather than scrapping them and foisting more e-waste on the environment, we’d prefer to send them to a good home where a geek or hacker can make use of them. If this sounds like you, we’d love you to have a gander at our ebay listings.

To whet your appetite, here’s a sample of what you can expect.

Supermicro Nyanserver 6015P-8R

Supermicro Highroller 6014H-T

Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about the hardware.

N.B. Nyanserver may not be as nyan as shown, photograph is for demonstrative purposes only.

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Tales of Hardware – IBM x3650

Published March 10th, 2009 by Barney Desmond

All the servers Anchor buys are from Supermicro. Most people won’t have heard of them, but they’re a sizeable hardware vendor that also does some OEM gear. Supermicro certainly doesn’t carry the mindshare of other big brands like HP, Dell, et al., but we chose them because their stuff is reliable and affordable – we focus on the things that actually matter, rather than some enterprise-y idea of sticking with big brands that you trust – “noone ever got fired for buying IBM” they say.

Actually, hold that thought for a moment.
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