SETI@home (ca. 2000) servers heading to salvage.

Ah setiathome. Those systems in the photo will have handled a lot of my personal data - well, compared to random other earthlings. I don't really have fond memories of that series of Sun Enterprise though - what are they, 3000 or 3500? Many a times that I stubbed my toes on that v-shaped thing protruding off the back side. Those systems only made sense for a cluster because they lacked internal reliability and power supply reduncancy - but cluster software back then didn't work too well, and I'm not sure anyone actually used that series as it was intended from the design - always as a cluster. Anyway, lots of very heavy metal frames, good enough to stub your toes on for sure - what I've come to call 'a stable platform' ie something you can put your weight on without worrying. Main issue for the 3000/3500 series were the power supplies as I recall, if you didn't get lucky, a 3500 would be a lot less reliable than a 250 - that didn't have all of the extra whoohow, but would work fine even after unbelievable abuse. Anyway, I still have some of the heatsinks that dropped off the several 3500 I had the privilege of knowing - one of them is now glued to the cpu of my spare server board.