gsk Posted March 27, 2015 Posted March 27, 2015 (edited) They'll most likely be sent off for recycling I would happily drive down to you, destroy the hard drives in the machines if you want me to and then re use them at primary schools for another couple of years. I can guarantee that they wouldn't be sold on for profit and can give you the audit trail for your WEEE records. And you could get a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that they've gone to a good home. Edited March 27, 2015 by gsk
Asgard Posted March 27, 2015 Posted March 27, 2015 (edited) Nothing special this year. About 40 Mid-2010 Macs Some Dell PE 2950 and R710 servers An old Equallogic SAN with any luck The usual run of PC retirements, original generation i3s from 2010 I think If you want a home for the R710's I'll have them, for a price of course. Looking at getting a few servers to show our BTEC students how to setup virtualisation / setup a hyper-v cluster I can't let them loose on our Dell C6220's ;-) Edited March 27, 2015 by Asgard
bwestlake Posted March 28, 2015 Posted March 28, 2015 Nothing special this year. About 40 Mid-2010 Macs Some Dell PE 2950 and R710 servers An old Equallogic SAN with any luck The usual run of PC retirements, original generation i3s from 2010 I think Il happily take one of the macs off your hands?
sparkeh Posted March 28, 2015 Posted March 28, 2015 Il happily take one of the macs off your hands? Ditto
Roberto Posted March 28, 2015 Posted March 28, 2015 (edited) Il happily take one of the macs off your hands? Sorry Ben (and everyone else who replied), this is out of @Norphy and my hands - the college gets paid to recycle this kind of waste and as things are tight now we now have to account for it. and Mitel phone system! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I think I'd rather install a home brew phone system that was coded by Jeremy Clarkson dictating code down a poor phoneline to a deaf person wearing boxing gloves, and only ran on OS/2, than buy mitel again. Edited March 28, 2015 by Roberto 2
steveg Posted March 28, 2015 Posted March 28, 2015 Projectors. Well except the ones for the hall and interactive floor, the last couple of Projectors and whiteboards will be going from our group rooms, replaced with lcds. The last few normal hard disks in client pcs will go too, replaced with ssds. Steve
plexer Posted March 28, 2015 Posted March 28, 2015 HOPEFULLY PBX phones and replacing with VOIP Still going to be a pbx in there though just an IP one. Ben
featured_spectre Posted March 28, 2015 Posted March 28, 2015 Plexer I know but the current pbx system is so old and badly designed it takes around 20 minutes to set up a number with all the details it needs whereas the voip one we tested took less than 2 minutes start to finish.
FN-GM Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 Nothing special this year. About 40 Mid-2010 Macs Some Dell PE 2950 and R710 servers An old Equallogic SAN with any luck The usual run of PC retirements, original generation i3s from 2010 I think I have just sold a number of those iMacs to staff for £225 each without any problems and made a few quid for the school. Might be worth doing that.
jdoldridge Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I think I'd rather install a home brew phone system that was coded by Jeremy Clarkson dictating code down a poor phoneline to a deaf person wearing boxing gloves, and only ran on OS/2, than buy mitel again. It can't be that bad surely? Our new build project includes this phone system as part of the pot of money.
mrbios Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 2 x HP DL380 G6 servers 5-6 years old 1 x Infortrend Eonstor A16E-2140 7-8 years old Still got some PCs with 946GZ chipsets which must be about 8 years old, hopefully getting rid of quite a few of those.
Roberto Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 It can't be that bad surely? Our new build project includes this phone system as part of the pot of money. It works but the usability leaves a lot to be desired. You remember that dilbert strip about log in sequences that include staring into the sun? Dilbert Comic Strip on 2007-11-16 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
Asgard Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 It can't be that bad surely? Our new build project includes this phone system as part of the pot of money. @jdoldridge We put a Mitel system in last summer and it's been faultless. Over 150 phones for just under 300 staff , virtually all 5320 ( setup in hot desk mode ), with six 5624 (WiFi Sip) for our premises staff and two 5360 (colour touchscreen). Two controllers - one physical ( 3300 MXE ) with dual power supplies and raid1 SSD disks and a backup controller as a Hyper-V virtual machine. We also added a SIP door panel which is at the main entrance so people can ring it out of normal hours (when the door entry system locks all external access) and be let in by the premises team. In the 18 months we have had it we have had one fault on it, which was the day it arrived - a faulty raid card. We have just got their Lync gateway so will be connecting it to our office365 setup shortly. 1
Trapper Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 Sophos Encryption to be replaced with VPN. Staff have VPN now, we encrypt the laptops to ensure the local copy of our assessment database is secure. Pre-VPN staff had to export their class from the server DB and import it onto a local SQL Express DB to work on it (BSquared - SEN Assessment). With VPN they now work directly on the server DB, and store nothing on their laptop that requires encrypting. Offline files are encrypted by Windows, and I've set all their local profile folders such as Desktop to their home drive. 99% of the time they connect via VPN and work online, and when they want to quickly change a file they work on the offline copy.
jdoldridge Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 @jdoldridge We put a Mitel system in last summer and it's been faultless. Over 150 phones for just under 300 staff , virtually all 5320 ( setup in hot desk mode ), with six 5624 (WiFi Sip) for our premises staff and two 5360 (colour touchscreen). Two controllers - one physical ( 3300 MXE ) with dual power supplies and raid1 SSD disks and a backup controller as a Hyper-V virtual machine. We also added a SIP door panel which is at the main entrance so people can ring it out of normal hours (when the door entry system locks all external access) and be let in by the premises team. In the 18 months we have had it we have had one fault on it, which was the day it arrived - a faulty raid card. We have just got their Lync gateway so will be connecting it to our office365 setup shortly. It really does sound like a good system. Our current NEC leaves a lot to be desired.
3s-gtech Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 All this talk of your fancy pants VOIP phone systems. Pah! Our BT Norstar 8x24 system is still going strong, still not intending to replace it. Parts are still cheap and easy to get too. Bonus will be that when we do take it out, it can go straight into a museum... 1
DCUK6 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Its such a shame that all this tech just gets chucked. Things like the R710 server, i would have that in a shot. Even if the HDD were taken out. Always winds me up. We are chucking out some all in ones. To slow for what we want but our students could use them but governors want them out. All the Cisco switches and access points and the NEC phone system. Changing to HP switches, Meru wireless and Mitel phone system! As Roberto said, not Mitel. Nightmare system to use, slow and horrible. We went through so many phones its unreal. If you do have Mitel though, make sure you set extentions up to end in 7 or 8. They set our extentions in my old school to start with one. This means that if you want people to be able to dial a extension before being put through to the receptionist then you cant use 1 on your auto answer. People ring the scool up and get something like "Thanks for calling, dial a extention number now or press 2 for attendance, 3 for..." I had a massive rant about where number 1 went.
Chris_ Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 The following RM Ones: The remaining few C2D T2390's, 2GB RAM, 17" 5:4 monitors A bunch of Celeron T1400, 2GB RAM, 19" 16:10 monitors And start phasing out some of the Celeron T3300, 2GB RAM, 19" 16:10 monitors Some had been upgraded to have SSDs, we'll move the SSDs in to newer PCs that still have HDDs, hopefully by the end of the summer most computers will be SSD.
Oaktech Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 All this talk of your fancy pants VOIP phone systems. Pah! Our BT Norstar 8x24 system is still going strong, still not intending to replace it. Parts are still cheap and easy to get too. Bonus will be that when we do take it out, it can go straight into a museum... I'll see your BT Norstar, and Raise you a Panasonic KX-TD1232 Digital Super Hybrid circa 1999.
Chris_ Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 I'll see your BT Norstar, and Raise you a Panasonic KX-TD1232 Digital Super Hybrid circa 1999. We had one of these systems up until a couple of years ago, ripped it out and replaced with a NEC VOIP system. Also managed to sell the old system for a bit of extra cash 1
3s-gtech Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 I'll see your BT Norstar, and Raise you a Panasonic KX-TD1232 Digital Super Hybrid circa 1999. Ours was made in the 45th week of 1991. Not just older than all students - that's older than several of our staff! 1
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