Five snap servers for sale locally - good deals?

[ben333]

Someone on CL is selling some network gear for "cheap" so I inquired on his Snap servers...

Hey Ben,

The Snap Servers are set up and working currently on our lan. The
components are configured as follows:

Snap Server Model 70700042-004 - 256gb - raid 5
Snap Server M4100 - 175gb - raid 5
Snap Server M4100 - 116gb - raid 5
Snap Server 4200 - 225gb - raid 5
Snap Server 4200 - 300gb - raid 5

I would be happy with $50.00 each for the M4100/4200 units and $30.00 for
the Model 70700042-004 unit.

I found the Snap Server Manager software on-line and they a seem to be
performing well.

Unfortunately, all the racks have been sold as of this morning.

Nyle

What do you guys think?

I could probably make a package deal and get two or more even cheaper. Good prices? He's a good drive from where I live.

[blue68f100]

The 4200 are the only ones I would consider provided they are complete with sleds and GardianOS. Then it would be a real bargin for that price. But without a working/loaded HD with the GOS your SOL, unless you already have a working GOS unit.

The others are so old they are of no use unless your running some very old hardware. The 4100 will only give you 8mbps read speeds on a 100BaseT network.

[ben333]

Well, theres storage amounts listed, so I'm guessing these have drives in them? Typically, would a unit contain all the sleds? I know sometimes when servers and NASs are pulled, the drives and sleds get scrapped out of laziness, this doesn't seem to be the case for these units.

[blue68f100]

Snap listed the size with the units due to internal hardware is different as capacity goes up. As you go up in size a lot of time the cpu speed > and Ram is increased.

Verify before you buy, safe than sorry.

On the 4100 the SnapOS is in flashram. These are non upgradeable, with HD limit by LBA48 NOT SUPPORTED.

[ben333]

Looks good...

The drives sleds are all there and the drives are includes. They are
running Guardian OS.

I have enclosed a pic of all 5 Snap Servers current running config. The new
Snap Manager will not show all the config settings of the older units...only
the 4200's show everything.

Make me an offer.

Nyle

So, how expandable is a 4200? I'm running a MacBook Pro now and don't really feel like throwing in a 1 TB hard drive even though they're cheap. A central place for all my data that's safe sounds pretty good. It's either this, or a box running Windows or Linux and a pair of 2 TB drives. (Mirror RAID, or perhaps just backups)

The Snap has an appeal to me though and I'm guessing if I ever get sick of it it's worth something on ebay? Perhaps the sleds alone are worth something?

EDIT: Added in the screen shots he sent me.

[blue68f100]

PM sent.