Supermicro on eBay - what's up with the prices?

[Arthur Krewat]

All of a sudden, Supermicro enclosures have gotten scarce and expensive. I bought a 836TQ in December, and it was under $300 w/shipping.

Now, I can't find anything even close, and all the rest of them are brand-new.

What happened, some huge datacenter cycled all their hardware and the eBay resellers finally ran out of them?

 

[T_Minus]

Most 836, 216, 846 from SM on ebay are from at-least 2 generations ago if not 3 or 4.

I've been watching 846 and they've almost doubled in current months vs. last summer, and before, etc...

Let us hope we see another wave with SAS2, and this time SAS3 backplanes Lol!! fingers crossed

 

[Jaket]

It depends you can still get some killer deals on there, I just picked up the other day a 2u four node dual 2011-v3/v4 barebone for $600.

 

[Arthur Krewat]

I'm looking for another 16-bay (or larger) TQ backplane cabinet. I can run 6Gbps SAS through it. I have enough Dell servers to choose from at work as they are end-of-lifed. But any of the disk cabinets that are available are all for the birds. Either 2.5" drives, or Dell MD1000's which are basically a single narrow SAS 3Gbps to each half. Worthless for performance, actually.

Guess I just need to wait until something comes up on eBay again...

 

[cheezehead]

Supply and demand, I picked up my 836TQ a year ago in December for under $200 shipped.

 

[T_Minus]

Don't get me wrong, DEALS are still there but you're not going to find 100 in stock at a low price from the same seller... at-least not like we have been.

 

[Diavuno]

I have a bunch of old 836 chassis laying around.