Use Refurbished Hardware When Upgrading Depreciated Equipment

Businesses around Australia and New Zealand depreciate their IT hardware at all sorts of different rates. Some can be over a few years and others up to 8 years plus.

Very often, within a particular depreciation schedule there comes the need for extra disk, memory or processors. Sometimes it doesn’t make sense to purchase brand new upgrades for a machine that is already substantially depreciated.

For example, a p650 purchased 2 years ago for $100,000 may need 4GB of additional memory. The current depreciated value of the machine is no longer what the original purchase price was, so why would you purchase new memory at new pricing when you can purchase memory which has already depreciated in line with the p650?

Not only does the machine remain at the same depreciated level, but you’ll also avoid damaging your cash flow.

There are other reasons to purchase used equipment than just cost

Few businesses can afford to take a chance with an outage in their systems, so many of them keep a replica of current hardware which can be used to recover from a failure.

A company that may have originally purchased an F50 will find the machine is no longer available new from IBM, so it often makes sense to purchase a used second F50 and therefore get peace of mind. The machine can also provide a great development and testing environment.

Over time, hardware manufacturers can remove support for some of the older technology but users may have to retain the older hardware because of applications on which their business is built.

Fortunately, Computer Merchants keeps stock of a lot of this older equipment and has access to a lot more. This allows customers to source scarce parts for their machine.

Not only can you save with used equipment, but it also allows you to duplicate your machines for emergency backup and keep some older machines running.