I recently e-wasted a few hundred pounds of servers and workstations. All of the drives are beside me at my desk... lol
I had an installation at SHAPE in 1992. The Sun servers were dual connected to IPI drives. Fast fail-over. About 3 weeks after install, drives started crashing. I sent a list of serial numbers to Sun in Germany. ALL of the drives came from a lot with defective filters and HDA connectors that were not properly affixed. I had to work with a couple RAF techs to fully disassemble all of the drives. The circuit boards and platters went into a vat of acid. Only the housings with the serial numbers were saved to ship back to Seagate via Sun. We indeed found missing filters and loose connectors between the HDA ribbon and circuit board. Once replaced, the system ran as designed. It was a first class pain in the butt.
Send me one of the most modern ones that got trashed if you still have access to them? They are probsbly all fine computers. Can run “tiny 11” (or tiny 10) on them no problem, but id put linux on themminstead