We buy old servers & network gear
We buy used rack and tower servers, storage, switches, routers, firewalls, wireless kit, racks and UPS units, working or not. We collect locally or arrange UK-wide pickup for larger loads. We collect once the kit has been powered down and disconnected by your IT team or provider; we don't take apart hardwired or electrical installations.
Servers, storage and network kit we buy
- Dell PowerEdge R, T, M and MX series
- HPE ProLiant DL, ML, BL and Apollo
- Lenovo ThinkSystem SR, ST and SD
- Cisco UCS
- Supermicro SuperServer
- Fujitsu PRIMERGY
- Older and less common models are welcome too
- Synology and QNAP
- NetApp FAS
- HPE MSA and Nimble
- Dell PowerVault and Compellent
- Cisco Catalyst and Meraki MS
- HPE Aruba CX and ProCurve
- Juniper EX
- Ubiquiti UniFi switches, gateways and APs
- Netgear ProSafe and Insight
- TP-Link Omada business
- Fortinet FortiGate
- Cisco ASA, Firepower and Meraki MX
- Palo Alto PA-series
- Sophos XG and XGS
- WatchGuard Firebox
- SonicWall TZ and NSa
We also take rack cabinets, KVM switches, UPS units from APC, Eaton and CyberPower, PDUs, patch panels, loose patch leads, fibre patches, transceivers, line cards, blanking panels and rack rails. If you're clearing the rest of the office too, see what we buy in desktops and monitors.
If you're emptying a server room
For larger jobs, we can walk through the room with you first and take photos, condition notes and an inventory.
Cloud migration projects often leave a room full of kit nobody owns any more. We take servers, network kit, racks and UPS units in one collection. See how the process works, from first message to collection day.
On-site drive wiping is available for larger jobs, so ask us if you need it. Otherwise we collect the drives and wipe them at our base to NIST 800-88, and you get a Certificate of Data Destruction listing each drive by serial.
Items with no resale value are recycled, and we send a disposal note for your audit.
A few specifics for server rooms
Are licences transferable?
Licences aren't transferable in most cases. Windows Server, VMware and Veeam are licensed to your organisation, and Cisco IOS and Meraki licences are tied to your dashboard. We sell the kit as bare hardware, and buyers re-license it in their own name.
What about smart cards, HSMs, things with embedded crypto?
Mention HSMs, crypto modules, smart card readers and SecurID tokens when you get in touch. We physically destroy them with a destruction certificate, or hand them back to you to destroy yourselves if you'd rather. We never resell anything with embedded keys.
Meraki / cloud-managed kit?
Release the device from your dashboard before collection, or we can't resell kit that's still claimed in your organisation. The same goes for Aruba Central, Cisco DNA Center and FortiGate Cloud devices.
Tape libraries / very old kit?
Tape libraries depend on age and brand. LTO-7 and later generations generally have buyers, while older formats usually go to parts or recycling. Send us the model and we'll tell you which route it takes.
Will you take rack cabinets?
Yes, if they're in working order. We take APC, Tripp Lite, Schneider, Rittal, Vertiv, HPE and Dell branded cabinets, and sell them on to MSPs setting up new sites. Mention the U count and we'll quote.
If you'd rather buy than sell, we sell tested servers and network kit too, wiped and checked.
Decommissioning a server room
Send a rough inventory or a few photos of the rack. We'll come back with a ballpark and, for larger jobs, a visit to see what's there.
Get an estimate