[FS US-CA] sfbayzfs 2025 massive homelab liquidation ASAP, local preferred, but shipping available

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Thanks for your support, it has been great (re)connecting with board members both old and new!

I have been slower than expected finding things and answering questions about items, but also, there is a little more time than expected - my general status update:

Medical equipment delivery has been delayed, so I have a few more days before the liquidators are coming, which will probably be Wednesday!

Apologies for delays in my replies - I was focusing on finding and sorting RAM, CPUs, and motherboards today, and am exhausted, but I will focus on replying to everyone by tomorrow evening at the end of the day, after I update the inventory below, and get shipping quotes.

Tomorrow's update will definitely include bulk lots and what systems are ready to go for you to make your own small cluster with!
I have determined that there are no hard drives I can part with right now, but there will be a few SSDs available.

Please include your phone number in DMs so we can text/coordinate quickly.

 

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### 2025-10-31 Update/Status: Deadline extended by a few days ###

Medical equipment delivery has been delayed, so I have a few more days before the liquidators are coming, which will probably be Wednesday!

Apologies for delays in my replies - I was focusing on finding and sorting RAM, CPUs, and motherboards today, and am exhausted, but I will focus on replying to everyone by tomorrow evening at the end of the day, after I update the inventory below, and get shipping quotes.

Tomorrow's update will definitely include bulk lots and what systems are ready to go for you to make your own small cluster with!
I have determined that there are no hard drives I can part with right now, but there will be a few SSDs available.

Please include your phone number in DMs so we can text/coordinate quickly.

### Big Update for 2025-10-23 summary ###

I found more of my stuff, so I have added lots of inventory, prices for previous TBD items, and lots of FREE with purchase items added!

ALL motherboards now include a starter CPU, heatsink, and RAM!

FREE X8 or earlier motherboard with CPU(s) and RAM with any chassis!

I have to get rid of the bulk of the volume by the end of the month, so I will be throwing in lots of FREE items - cables, accessories, as-is items, etc. with anything local - the more you buy the more freebies

Added NAS towers, pricing for most items, upgrade RAM, NIC, GPU pricing for everything, and hopefully easier to read format.

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Hello all,

Apologies for disappearing for a couple of years, I have really enjoyed trading hardware with many of you over the years, but in that time, even more family medical stuff has consumed all of my resources (time, money, etc.) Due to the amount of money I have tied up in my hardware collection, and the space it takes up, I unfortunately need to liquidate as much of my huge hardware collection as possible ASAP.

This list is mostly complete, but still a WIP, I will update items and prices over the weekend as I take inventory and check current pricing.

I have a lot of great hardware, and I'm trying to balance finding a good home for everything and recouping as much money as possible as quickly as possible for medical bills/interest before resorting to the liquidator, but please contact me ASAP if you are interested in any of this stuff, especially lots of it, as it all has to go by the end of the month.

Generally, my builds are modular and flexible, but I have especially focused on these applications:

• - Plex/XBMC systems with transcoding capability, either onboard Intel or nVidia Quadro card(s)
• - Bulk storage NAS systems which run your choice of TrueNAS/FreeNAS, UnRAID, etc.
• - All-in-one homelab systems and small homelab clusters with lots of cores and RAM (small cluster = ~4-10 systems)
• - Routers with fast networking, and low power (Atom C series, Xeon e3 and Xeon D)
• - Low power/embedded applications

Scale-wise:

• I have 4-5 racks worth of mostly Supermicro rackmount systems, JBODs, and chassis' - with trays! I have a good number of rail sets as well, I probably won't run out, but I will announce if I do.
• For tower systems, I have lots of storage oriented towers I custom built, ranging from mini to huge - 4-30x 3.5" LFF hotswaps, and 2.5" hotswap options as well.
• For mini towers, I have a few each Dell, HP, and Lenovo with Skylake/Kabby Lake generation Xeons
• Laptop-wise I have several Lenovo ThinkPads, mostly business/workstation class, and a couple of Macbook Pros, as well as a bunch of for-parts Macbook Pros and Airs

Prices are all OBO, especially on larger rackmount items, and if you take a lot of stuff.
Generally I am pricing things starting at ~90% of ebay shipped value, with bulk discounts from there on down, since I can get ~60% of ebay from a liquidator who will take it all at once.
For chassis, I am effectively starting with an even larger discount because on ebay cases typically have no trays/caddies or backplane cables, but my cases/systems all include a full set of trays plus other essential items - SAS/SATA backplane cables, stock fans, plus extra parts and accessories while supplies last, such as motherboard standoffs and screws, front panel breakout cables for non-Supermicro motherboards, etc.. Rails are extra, but I do have a good number of rail sets available.

Anyone who can pick up in the SF Bay area gets dibs on things, especially if you take multiple items.

That said, I do have a lot of 1-4U rackmount shipper boxes (many Supermicro original) which also have to go, so as long as I have closed cell foam inserts, I will ship via Fedex Ground within the USA until I run out, but I will have to do shipping in batches to save time.
I have done a lot of international shipping as well in the past, but the customs forms and such

TBD prices are pending confirmation of inventory/config

Supermicro Stuff:

Supermicro rackmount systems/chassis:

Buy any of the cases below, and if it does not already have a motherboard in it, I will give you a FREE motherboard, CPU, RAM, and CPU cooler! (but if it isn't already installed, you have to install it yourself.)

• Power supplies are usually dual hotswap, except - 5xx 1U are all single fixed, and half of my other 1U and just a few of my 2U chassis' also have single fixed PSUs
• Backplanes - prices assume direct or SAS2 single expander, add $ for SAS3 or SAS3/NVME backplanes
• Discount for complete systems.
• DIY Discount for taking parts for complete systems, but assembling them yourself. (I don't have time to change configs much anymore unfortunately)
• All JBOD cases are complete with power controller board and external cable ports.

LFF 3.5" and SFF 2.5" hotswap bay counts listed:

1u - sturdy, space on front for front panel controls

• TBD - 1xx 5xx 1u shallow router/embedded cases w/ internal fixed drive mounts only
• 50 - cse-813 1u 4x 3.5
• 50 - cse-815 1u 4x 3.5 (my 815 cases are set up for/with X10/X11 WIO motherboards with horizontal slots)
• 60 - cse-813m 1u 4x 3.5, shallow, +$60 for SAS3/NVME version
• 100 - cse-113m 1u 8x 2.5, shallow, +$60 for SAS3/NVME version
• 180 - cse-116m 1u 10x 2.5, shallow

2u - Great form factor for up to 12x 3.5 or 24x 2.5 drives! 80mm chassis fans are much quieter than the 40mm in 1u chassis'

• 80 - cse-822 2u 6x 3.5 (sturdy aluminum trays)
• 80 - cse-823 2u 6x 3.5 (sturdy aluminum trays)
• 100 - cse-825 2u 8x 3.5
• 120 - cse-829 2u 10x 3.5
• 160 - cse-829 2u 12x 3.5
• 180 - cse-826 2u 12x 3.5
• 100 - cse-213 2u 8x 2.5
• 140 - cse-213 2u 16x 2.5
• 200 - cse-216 2u 24x 2.5

3u - These are really sturdy, and don't have any fragile front panel controls and lights on the handles like the 2U and 4U models which have fronts full of drives (826, 216, 846, 847, 417)

• 250 - cse-836 3u 16x 3.5 SAS2 single expander backplane
• 400 - cse-836 3u 16x 3.5 SAS2 double expander backplane
• 650 - cse-837 3u JBOD double ended 28x 3.5 single expander
• 750 - cse-837 3u JBOD double ended 28x 3.5 double expander

4u:

• 400 - cse-846 4u 24x 3.5 - backplane either SAS2 single expander or TQ or A direct
• 500 - cse-846 4u 24x 3.5 - backplane SAS2 double expander
• 550 - cse-846 4u 24x 3.5 - backplane SAS3 single expander
• 400 - cse-847 4u double ended 36x 3.5 backplanes SAS2 single expander
• 600 - cse-847 4u double ended 36x 3.5 backplanes SAS3 single expander
• 680 - cse-847 4u double ended 36x 3.5 backplanes SAS3 single expander + 4x NVME on the back (BPN-SAS3-826EL1-N4) with 3.5 to 2.5 locking NVME trays for those four bays
• 600 - cse-847 4u JBOD double ended 45x 3.5 SAS2 single expanders
• 700 - cse-847 4u JBOD double ended 45x 3.5 SAS2 double expanders
• 850 - cse-847 4u JBOD double ended 44x 3.5 SAS3 single expander backplanes and BMC/IPMI network remote control of power, fans
• TBD - cse-417 4u chassis - double ended 72x 2.5 SAS2 single expanders - I might have one or two with SAS2 double expanders, checking tonight
• TBD - cse-417 4u JBOD double ended 88x 2.5 SAS2 single expanders, that is a lot of SSDs!

Motherboards - ALL Motherboards come with a basic CPU and some starter RAM unless noted otherwise:

Atom C series, all with the official hardware fix applied by Supermicro, re-priced with 1x 8GB ECC unbuffered SODIMM included:
Mini ITX:

• 150 - a1sai-2550f c2550
• 210 - a1sri-2558f c2558
• 150 - a1sai-2750f c2750
• 210 - a1sri-2758f c2758

Micro ATX - 2x4GB ECC unbuffered included:

• 100 - a1sam-2550f
• 180 - a1sam-2550f
• 180 - a1srm-ln7f

X10 Xeon D embedded boards - need to verify inventory for some models, 32GB as 2x16GB DDR4 ECC Reg included

• TBD - x10sdv-16c-tln4f
• 450 - x10sdv-4c-7tp4f
• 280 - x10sdv-4c-tln2f

X9 - Xeon e3: All with FREE Xeon e3-1220 or celeron, pentium, or i3 for lower power, and 8GB as 4x2GB DDR3 ECC Unbuffered

• 40 - x9scl/x9scm variants working with latest BIOS (I have a few non-working boards for free)

X9 - Xeon e5 - All of these have free lower power CPUs (e3-2620 or similar), 4GB of ECC registered DDR3 per CPU socket as 1x4GB or 2x2GB:

• 100 - x9dai
• 100 - x9drd-7ln4f
• 100 - x9drd-7ln4f-jbod
• 80 - x9drd-if
• 180 - x9srh-7f - rare, with LSI SAS2 HBA onboard, 3x PCI slots for legacy cards!

X10 - Xeon e3: All with FREE Xeon e3-1220v3 or similar, and 8GB DDR3 as 2x4GB

• 80 - x10sll-f
• 80 - x10slm-f
• 80 - x10slh-f
• 160 - x10sl7-f - LSI SAS2 HBA onboard!
• 70 - x10slh-ln6tf - 6x 10GbE - great router board!

X10 - Xeon e5 - socket R3 - All of these have free lower power CPUs (e5-2603v3 e5-2609v3 or e3-2620v3), 1 stick of 8GB ECC registered DDR4 per CPU socket:

• 260 - x10drh-i
• 140 - x10drh-it (dual 10GbE!)
• 200 - x10dri-t4+ (quad 10GbE!)
• 150 - x10drl-i
• 200 - x10srh-cf - onboard LSI SAS3 HBA!
• 300 - x10srh-cln4f - onboard LSI SAS3 HBA and 4x 1GbE ports!
• 400 - x10srm-tf - rare but fantastic super flexible uATX board with dual 10GBe, u.2 NVME, 10x SATA, etc.!
• 120 - x10sri-f
• 200 - x10srl-f
• 100 - x10srw-f - WIO board, great retrofit for UIO x8 chassis'

X11 - Xeon e3 socket - All with FREE Xeon e3-1225v5 or +$15 for 1e-1225v6, RAM is extra (see ECC unbuffered below)

• 110 - x11sae-f - Workstation layout can handle 2x double slot GPUs, also with onboard audio!
• 300 - x11scv-q - rare ITX w/ transcoding, includes compatible i7 and 16GB RAM (non-ECC)
• 120 - x11ssh-f - Micro ATX w/transcoding!
• 150 - x11ssw-f - transcoding, WIO

Non-Supermicro rackmount stuff:

• 240 - EMC "recovery point gen5 fibre channel" 1u server w/ 128GB RAM, dual Xeon e5-1220 or 1230, 8x 2.5" hotswaps, onboard SFP+, Fibre channel card - qty 3 available - model E1208GL4GCN
• 250 - EMC 3u 15x 3.5" KTN-STL3 Expansion Disk Shelf Array w/ caddies - nice shallow storage expansion! QTY 2 available - extra trays and 2.5" adapter trays if you take both!
• TBD - iStarUSA chassis - partial inventory tonight, full by tomorow realistically

Complete custom NAS/JBOD/Homelab AIO towers and shallow custom rackmounts:
Generally these are cases with lots of 5.25" bays with trayless or tray hotswap bay adapters for 3.5" SAS/SATA drives (I do have 2.5" bay adapters as well if you need those)
These are all complete systems which INCLUDE:

1. LSI/BroadCom/Avago HBAs with cables for all drive bays
2. small boot SSD
3. 80+ PSU
4. 10G networking if possible - Dual 10G SFP+ card

Motherboards included are:

• Mini ITX systems include an A2SAI-2550 4-core low power atom w/ 16GB ECC unbuffered as a starting point, or upgrade to other ITX boards
• Micro ATX systems include an X9SCM-F or similar motherboard w/ choice of my remaining Xeon e3, celeron, pentium, or i3 w/16GB ECC unbuffered as a start, or upgrade to any of my other motherboards.
• ATX towers have your choice of the Micro ATX option above, or an X9SRi-F with low power Xeon and 64GB ECC registered RAM

(Upgrade to any other motherboard above which will fit in the case for the cost difference)

ATX/Micro-ATX:

• 560 - 12-bay trayless Antec Nine Hundred tower
• 560 - 15-bay Antec Nine Hundred tower w/ 3x Supermicro CSE-M35TQ , add $70 for Noctua case and drive adapter fans - 2x 120mm, 3x 92mm
• 640 - 15-bay trayless AzzA Solano 1000 tower - one left
• 840 - 20-bay Antec Twelve Hundred tower w/4x Supermicro CSE-M35TQ, add $100 for Noctua fans - 3x 120mm, 4x 92mm
• 980 - 20-bay trayless Antec Twelve Hundred tower, add $40 for Noctua fans - 3x 120mm

ITX:

• 500 - Chenbro 4-bay mini tower
• 600 - Norco 8-bay mini tower
• 700 - iStarUSA S-915 w/ 8x 3.5" bays via iStarUSA adapters, choice of tray or trayless

RAM upgrades for anything above with a motherboard in it - variety of speeds available, will be matched to system:

• 20 - 8GB stick of DDR3 ECC Unbuffered
• 30 - 8GB mini SODIMM of DDR3 ECC Unbuffered (for Atom C2000 ITX boards)
• 20 - 16GB stick of DDR3 ECC Registered
• 40 - 32GB stick of DDR3 ECC Registered
• 45 - 64GB stick of DDR3 ECC Registered LRDIMM

• 50 - 16GB stick of DDR4 ECC Unbuffered - regular size, or SODIMMs for boards that take those
• 22 - 16GB stick of DDR4 ECC Registered
• 45 - 32GB stick of DDR4 ECC Registered
• 175 - 64GB stick of DDR4 ECC Registered LRDIMM

Other Upgrades and Add-ons for any system:

• 7 - Supermicro FAN-0125L4 0.35A fan retrofitted into a carrier for any 2U-4U Supermicro chassis - quiet, but moves enough air, unlike Noctua 80mm fans
• 8 - 2.5 to 3.5" adapters, I have several types
• 50 - Rail kit inner and outer rails for any Supermicro rackmount above
• 40 - GPU - nVidia Quadro P400 2GB (transcoding, small LLMs)
• 50 - GPU - nVidia Quadro P600 2GB (transcoding, small LLMs)
• 180 - GPU - nVidia Quadro P4000 8GB
• 25 - NIC - Intel dual 1GbE
• 50 - NIC - Intel quad 1GbE
• 20 - NIC - Supermicro/Intel dual 10G SFP+
• 50 - NIC - Supermicro/Intel dual 25G SFP+
• 70 - NIC - Supermicro/Intel dual 10GbE (10G-base-T copper on cat6 or better)
• 35 - HBA - LSI SAS2 controller - 8-port

Mini desktops which can run Win11, Linux, etc.:

$140 - HP, Dell, and Lenovo mini desktop with Xeon e3-1225v5 and 2-4 low profile slots
$160 - HP, Dell, and Lenovo mini desktop with Xeon e3-1225v6 and 2-4 low profile slots

I need to clear more space to get to the items for these sections:
SSDs, controllers, bulk lots of parts, and discount lots of multiple servers with the same configuration, as well as some discount chassis' with broken handle mounts.

Anyway, please DM me if you are interested!

Thanks, and best of health to all,
-SFBayZFS

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[sfbayzfs]

I'm replying to everyone tonight, apologies for the delays, but we're down to the final days now:

### Status 2025-11-07: Monday evening is the final deadline ###

The liquidator is coming Tuesday, probably early.

Local pickup chassis deals this weekend:

• Prices dropped on many chassis' for local pickup this weekend!
• Van Gogh missing "ear" / handle TLC special - I have a number of 2U and 4U systems in need of a new home with missing rack ears/handles, often with corresponding missing handle mounts (which are unfortunately not replaceable AFAICT due to incredibly small clearance to the drives and the ribbon cable)
  • $20 off per missing non-electric handle
  • $30 off per missing/damaged power/reset/lights handle
• Mini desktops w/ Skylake or Kabby Lake Xeon e3 CPU, and some RAM, TPM, and maybe a boot drive

ADDED: Old enterprise SATA SSDs:

• 100GB 15mm 2.5" Dell/Samsung SSDs - This model is known to die suddenly, but they are cheap, and great paperweights due to extra thickness, plus you can salvage supercaps from inside! 25 drives for $100
• 200GB Kingston DC grade drives, 12 for $100, or 60+ for $400 (I started with 90 or so, but have deployed several myself)