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a Pacers as7 20 is a dual interphase SSD with a USB 3.1 type-c connector rated at up to 540 megabyte per second read speeds check out the link in the video description to learn more welcome friends to free geek Vancouver we got a couple of videos planned here but for this first one we're going to be taking you guys on a tour of what it looks like where they reduced reuse we build recycle and resell we sell computers electronics like that they have everything here I got like 2.4 gigahertz 802.11 B wireless I got a Sony Walkman a an FM TV that's that a jam box this thing was never any good a whole bit of circuit boards whoo cuz why not so let's have a look around first off we have the data destruction station so this thing I don't actually know what this is called probably just a press I don't know it probably is more technical name than that but oh well basically you just pull this thing down it punctures through your hard drive like what Linus has on display isn't it this was left of the platters inside so this is monitor sorting land you can see we've got whoo it's a 19-inch VGA DVI but how do we know it works so this is cool they've actually got a KTM set up here and then they've just got a test machine here that allows them to run the monitors for I think it is 30 minutes or something along those lines and then they can determine are they working are they not and decide whether they end up in the store here we have small dismantle and circuit board preparation basically what they do here is take things apart that are small so you have a lot of like motherboard batteries give little motors for different things like hard drives you have magnetic coils for different things and all this kind of stuff gets prepared because you're looting certain valuable things off of it and the circuit board preparation is for stuff that goes into here because these get recycled where they take out the gold and the platinum and all the valuable things off the board and make some money off of it to fund free geek this is PC dismantle and there's a few rules no loose side paddles ever anywhere and I have definitely had this problem at our office so I totally get it so this is the pile of all the computers that we've actually dismantled most of today so guys are going to be able to check that out in our vlog we've got Nikki V taken apart okay not like that we are not barbarians Nikki V so basically you sort everything into aluminum steel scrap copper CPUs check that out ram circuit boards motherboards my fins Oh Thank You Dennis good job Dennis and optical and whatever this is drives the bernoulli 230 this is component disassembly you get stuff like routers optical drives speakers whatever and then take them to this table over here or you can see this one's even partway through assembly this was our disassembly this is a tape drive which are actually pretty expensive but it's broken so it's getting taken apart take things out like the like the magnets and whatnot strip them down into raw materials where we have steel and plastic over there and then we have circuit boards up here which are taking for their copper gold or platinum or whatever this feels just taking for raw steel here they're recycling by oh yeah straight up recycling I guess in here we've got memory land so this is where they sort and cast all of the RAM from the disassembly station so you can see they've got this is this is so cool this like wall-mounted memory testing system that they got here ddr2 and ddr3 and then they sort it into all the different working capacities and speeds this is actually more RAM than I have ever seen in one place anywhere in my life they have some cool stuff in here like they've got all these FB dims so this is older server memory I mean check this out I remember these Oh seizing Reaper Edition now with heat pipe cooling everything is so well organized and documented here it is so cool so there's like this awesome chart of like here's all the different types of RAM pretty much pretty much ever the blank spot for ddr4 I suspect they don't get a lot of scrap ddr4 oh this is hard drive so Ram is right behind you Linus just walk you guys through that one this is hard drive so they have these like custom-made wooden hard drive holders which are actually pretty sick they use them at all their stations they kind of zombified their computers so they have SATA power and data coming out of the front so they can hook up as many drives as they want this station is the wiping station they run Derrick's boot and you can just wipe the drive so much that someone wouldn't realistically be able to very easily get the data off of it then it goes to blank Drive so once it's done being wiped comes down here to blank there isn't that many blank ones right now there's just a 200 gig IDE then it goes up into in the installation station where they have the same kind of zombified computers with cables hanging out the front and they install Ubuntu right now they're thinking about moving to Mint I supported that move so maybe they'll actually do that and then they install the same thing on all these drives so that's free open-source software which they support a lot because things that are cheaper good for them and then these are prepped and ready to go to the system setup area we have what Taryn and John are currently working on which is actually the final setup of well almost the final setup of one of the systems you take note of what's in it if it's actually functioning properly do stuff like a stress test you make sure that it's clean you take note of how many slots are there for different things right your name give the system a name whatnot and then that's basic QC it has one more round of QC right after that before it goes up and into the store what what what what what but not but seriously welcome to the thrift shop so this is where all the refurbished stuff from out there ends up so in here you can buy well pretty much anything that you saw out there except piecemeal or whole systems and I think they sell themselves a little bit short here I mean we have more types of rennes and CPUs available please ask for assistance yeah they do we have definitely seen it not everyone wants to buy bear components though and they've actually got a wide variety of different systems everything from like Core 2 duos that are 50 bucks or you can actually just work a few hours here as a volunteer and you can take one of these puppies home all the way up to more expensive stuff like this Mac Pro with dual quad-core xeon or this Intel Core i7 actually fairly capable gaming rig all for pretty reasonable prices so that is how luke performed so well in the last scrapyard Wars there's some other very cool stuff in the store that's probably not for sale like this vintage AB FedEx can water cooled computers I mean that looks like I think that's a not a TD accent to NZXT or something like that from danger den now-defunct I mean look at this thing look at this look at this stuff it's unbelievable just like Depeche Mode in here this is this predates the AOL CD they have other stuff up here as well that aren't just normal computers including this which is a up to 100 foot range 256 bit AES encrypted Wireless mechanical keyboard with cherry black switches on it which is actually pretty sick and it's just under a hundred bucks which is badass they have like shows and stuff so you can get the office they have the first four seasons of the office they have some games over behind me there's individual component stuff like optical drives behind the desk you can buy things like motherboards and CPUs you pretty much get hooked up but you might have noticed the laptops in the thrift store we never showed where those came from this is the laptop lab this is actually one of the big moneymakers for free gig not to say that it's a for-profit Society I'm just saying that they have to keep the lights on and the bills paid somehow and this department is a big part of it so in here they've got their uh-huh this is all the we know their stuff wrong with this this is the issues laptops over here these are the ones that are ready to build so ready to replace batteries replace RAM replace drives or maybe just be a thrown out as a waste like this pretty ba looking Panasonic rugged computer here this over here is testing stations where you can see they're using you know industry standard tools like mem test for example to make sure that everything's going hunky-dory over here and then once it's all done in this room check this out my friends this over here is actually an incoming pile but this over here is the stacks on stacks on stacks on stacks of finished laptop computers that are ready to go out to the store or to people who need them speaking of actually nothing because I'm in a different place doing a different thing ting comm ting is the mobile carrier that actually has a phone which if you think about 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