What's Inside a $1,000 Network Switch?
You may not have ever wondered or cared, but I'm about to show you...
Last weekend we had some "power issues" that ended up killing one of our network switches at the office. Being a good IT guy, everything's under warranty and a new one arrived next-day.
Today was a slower day at work, so I decided to tear this thing down and show you what's inside. Okay, okay, you got me. I was actually pull this apart for scrap and to get any good bits out of and figured I'd make a Steemit post, too.
Let's get going!
Here's the series of photos pulling it apart bit by bit.
Proof of price... BAM!
Good Bits
Right off hand, I got three good 12 volt fans and a lot of aluminum heat sinks. Other than that... heck if I know! Maybe Pinterest will inspire me...
See you on the next post,
-- @greenacrehome
I don't even know what that is, any of it. But it's cool to see the insides of it. Can you use the bits you got to repair different things?
Naa, not for repairs. I'll just them to make neat craft things from at least that's my thought process.
I have seen the inside of stuff like this before. I many moons ago got my Hardware tech course, but then had babies and well that shot that to shit, cause of the constant upgraded needed so I changed careers for like the 3rd time. LOL but thanks for the memory.
Anytime! :-)
Umm, remember them. Used to have them and wires all over the place in our server room before we outsourced.
So glad we outsourced and flew to the clouds 😊
You would love delving about in my barn - that are about 30 old servers and boxes and boxes of network bits. So hard to resell that stuff it all ended in my barn. And lots of mice too...
My hubby used to keep all sorts of odds and sods of techno stuff. I still have a whole room overflowing with used parts. Can they be put to good use or should I just call the junkman?
The old items may have gold (tiny, tiny amounts) in it that could be reclaimed though a long, laborious process. :) Otherwise, just "cool" value or (in my case) the possibility of being upcycled into something else.
I probably would! :) I'm not a collector of the whole thing, just the useful bits. LOL I have enough 12v computer fans to run a zeplin probably! :)
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STOPCool innards!
Happy Day
Melissa