When a rack comes out, the machines get dealt with and the accessories get left in a corner. Those accessories have a market of their own, and an active one — the people keeping older fleets running need exactly these parts and cannot buy them new.
Power supplies · Rail kits · Drive caddies and blanks · Front bezels · RAID controllers and HBAs · Heatsinks · Riser cards · Cable management arms
Rail kits
Rails are the classic example. They are model-specific, routinely left bolted into a rack, and anyone maintaining an installed fleet eventually needs a set. They are not interchangeable between generations: rails for a DL360 Gen9 are not rails for a Gen10. The part number is usually on a sticker on the rail itself.
Caddies and blanks
Every drive pulled from a chassis leaves a caddy behind, and every empty bay needs a blank for airflow. Both sell. Dell, HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro caddies all differ, and the 2.5in and 3.5in versions differ again. Count them by type and send that as a line.
Power supplies
Worth listing individually rather than as "some power supplies". Wattage, platform and part number all matter — a 750W Dell 14G supply and a 750W HPE Gen10 supply are different parts with different buyers. Redundant pairs are worth more than singles.
One box of oddments? Send a photo. We will tell you honestly whether it is worth collecting.
Send your listControllers and adapters
RAID controllers and host bus adapters have a steady market — Dell PERC H730, H740P and HBA330, HPE Smart Array P440ar, P408i and P816i. Cache modules and battery or capacitor backup units are worth listing too, and are frequently missing from second-hand controllers, which makes complete ones more valuable.
How to list spares
Spares are the one case where a photograph beats a written list. A picture of the box or pallet with part numbers visible tells us more than a page of description. If you would rather write it out: type, which platform it came off, part number where visible, and how many.
What we do not buy
We do not buy parts that are known faulty or are being sold untested. Small quantities are fine — if it is one box of oddments, send a photo and we will tell you honestly whether it is worth collecting, including if it is not.