As you may know, TechMike’s office is practically a jungle at this point. It’s also filled to the brim with server chassis. Amid the greenery and the gear, TechMike realized that you could totally turn an R720xd into a planter… so that’s exactly what happened. We put together a quick tutorial for how you can upcycle your old equipment; whether it’s because of forced obsolescence or your rack ju...
As you might have guessed, configuring enterprise-grade servers takes some serious attention and care. After sourcing the right combination of compatible processors, RAM sticks, RAID controllers, drive bays, you name it, our expert technicians put meticulous work and a whole lot of love into each and every unique server we send out.
Don't just take our word for it. Take a peek behind-the-scen...
Over the years, we've received compliments from our customers (and indirectly from our competitors when they steal our images!) on how impressive our product photos are. We thought it would be nice to give credit where credit is due and showcase our in-house photographer, Ashir Cherkezov. Ashir has been our exclusive photographer for TechMikeNY servers and parts for the past three years.
We ...
Every once in a while, some of you ask "what does 'refurbished' mean? What is the difference between ‘used’ and ‘refurbished’?"
It's a fair question. So, we've decided to lay down the meaning of "refurbished" and share some of the processes and steps we take to ensure our products are as good as new. We want you, our valued customer, to have visibility into our refurbishing process.
Let's pul...
We are often asked, “Is there really a ‘Mike’ at TechMikeNY? Or is he some kind of mythical tech guru, a literary construction you created sell servers?”
Mike is very real.
Mike heads up our Customer Service & Support department, and it goes without saying he’s been with TechMikeNY since the very beginning (since it would never have been TechMikeNY without him!). In fact, many custom...
We often are asked by our customers for more details on our refurbished hard drives. “How long have they been running? How many bytes have been written? Are there any bad sectors?” Since we already covered the myths and misconceptions about refurbished hard drives in a previous blog post, we thought it would be helpful to share the objective metrics we use to quantify our drives before we...
Meet Anthony Carrion – Senior Server Builder at TechMikeNY. When you order a server from TechMikeNY, there is a good chance that the build has passed through Anthony’s experienced hands.
We spoke to Anthony to glean some pearls of wisdom with his experience in building almost 6,000 (!) servers.
How long have you been at TechMikeNY?
Two and a half years.
About how many servers would you gu...
