 A-PACERS AS720 is a dual interface 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 gonna be taking you guys on a tour of what it looks like, where they reduce, reuse, rebuild, recycle, and resell computers and electronics. And like, they have everything here. I got like 2.4 gigahertz 802.11b wireless. I got a Sony Walkman AMF-M TV. Is that a jam box? This thing was never any good. A whole bin of circuit boards. Woo! Because 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 has 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. Listen to this. That's what's left of the platters inside. So this is monitor sorting land. You can see we've got, oh it's a 19-inch VGA and DVI, but how do we know it works? So this is cool. They've actually got a KVM 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, you have 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 then 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 FreeGeek. This is PC dismantle land. 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 you guys are going to be able to check that out in our blog. We've got Nicky V taking apart. Okay, not like that. We are not barbarians, Nicky V. So basically you sort everything into aluminum, steel, scrap, copper, CPUs. Check that out. Ram, circuit boards, motherboards. Oh, thank you, Dennis. Good job, Dennis. And optical and whatever this is drives, the Bernoulli 230. So this is component disassembly. You get stuff like routers, optical drives, speakers, whatever, and then take them to this table over here where you can see this one's even partway through assembly. This was our disassembly. This was a tape drive, which are actually pretty expensive, but it's broken, so it's getting taken apart. Take things out 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 taken for their copper, gold, or platinum or whatever, and then steel is just taken for raw steel. Here they're recycling by, yeah, straight up recycling, I guess. In here we've got memory land, so this is where they sort and test all of the RAM from the disassembly station. So you can see they've got this. 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. They've got all these FB DIMMs, so this is older server memory. I mean, check this out. I remember these. OCC Reaper Edition now with heat pipe cooling. Everything is so well organized and documented here. It is so cool. So there's this awesome chart of like, here's all the different types of RAM pretty much ever. The blank spot for DDR4. I suspect they don't get a lot of scrap DDR4. So this is hard drive. So RAM is right behind you. Linus just walked 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 Derek's boot and new. 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, it 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 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 it's free open source software, which they support a lot because things that are cheap are 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, you 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. Write down 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, what, no, 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 a piecemeal or whole systems. And I think they sell themselves a little bit short here. I mean, we have more types of RAM and CPUs available. Please ask for assistance. Yeah, they do. We have definitely seen it. Not everyone wants to buy bare components though. And they've actually got a wide variety of different systems, everything from like core two 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 Xeons. So you can get a quad core Xeons 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 FedEx water cooled computer is. I mean, that looks like, I think that's not a TDX. It's an MDX 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. It's like the PESH 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 can pretty much get hooked up. But you might've 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 money makers 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, well, this is all the, we know there's 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 thrown out as e-waste like this pretty BA looking Panasonic, uh, 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. 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