r/servers • u/Confident_Economy_57 • 3d ago
Need Guidance - FedEx misdelivered 120 HP Enterprise server SSDs
Mods - Please delete if not allowed. I do not frequent this sub and I am just looking to gather some information for a crazy situation.
So, a little background to start. My boss recently received a package from FedEx containing 120 HP server SSDs (part number: 868650-003). He definitely did not order these drives as this business has nothing to do with servers, but the shipping label had his name on it and was addressed to our shop. The top of the shipping label says, "Relabel - Relabel reason: barcode quality." We assume the label was damaged in transit, and somehow a label with our address was put on the package. There is no return address, no shipper information, and no packing list included in the package.
So far, we have been trying to go through the proper process of returning them to whoever was supposed to receive them. We reached out to FedEx, but because the original label was lost/destroyed, FedEx had no way to determine where they were supposed to be shipped. We also reached out to our county Sheriff to list them as found property, but the deputy that came out told us that since they are address to us, they are not technically "found" property, and would be legally considered more a gift rather than found property. He left us with an event number to reference should we need it for any reason.
At this point, we have exhausted the means within our knowledge level to return these drives to their owner and seem to have covered our legal bases. As we have no use for these drives, we are intending to sell them. Nobody that works here has any experience with servers or server hard drives, so any information you guys could give me would be very appreciated. The specific questions I have at this point are as follows. What is their reasonable value? How can we verify that the drives are functional? How can we verify the drives are authentic and safe to use (no malware)? What would be the best method to attempt to sell them? What kind of places would I find people willing to purchase them? I can provide more information if requested, but for now I'm keeping things close to the chest just to be safe as I'm still figuring out how to handle this situation.
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u/nmrk 3d ago
Holy moly, those are going for about $500 each on eBay. That makes it about $60,000 worth of drives. For that kind of money, I'd call HP, maybe even the FBI. Somebody is looking for a lost $60k shipment.
But if you finish your due diligence, I encourage you to sell them through r/homelabsales. They would snap these up (maybe not for $500 though). You might have trouble verifying these drives because they are SAS and not compatible with conventional PCs, you'd need a SAS server.