Capabilities
What we stock, and what we do with it.
Seven hardware categories, plus the sourcing, testing and documentation work that sits around them.
Coverage
Hardware categories
01
Servers & Chassis
Chassis and enclosure stock is where lead times bite hardest, because a frame is rarely a same-week order from the original vendor. We hold platform-level hardware so a rack build is not held up waiting on the one part nobody thought to spare.
02
Storage & Backup
Backup estates outlive the servers they protect. We keep drives, media and carrier hardware for tape generations that are long out of production, so a restore obligation from six years ago is still a restore you can actually perform.
03
Networking
Network hardware is the part of the estate most often specified once and then left alone for a decade. We supply both the current-generation platforms and the transition hardware — media converters, walljacks, controllers — that keeps an older segment talking to a newer one.
04
System Boards
A failed system board is the difference between a four-hour swap and a rebuild. Boards are matched to the exact platform revision, tested under power, and shipped in ESD packaging with the revision level recorded on the paperwork.
05
Memory
Memory is where mixed-vendor estates go wrong most quietly. We match rank, organisation and vendor qualification rather than headline capacity, because a module that posts is not the same as a module the platform supports.
06
Processors
Processors are supplied with the socket, core count, base clock and cache confirmed against the part number before despatch. Where a platform requires a matched pair or a specific stepping, we say so on the quotation rather than after delivery.
07
Cables & Adapters
Cable kits are the cheapest thing in the rack and the most common reason a build stops. We stock the vendor part numbers rather than approximate equivalents, because routing clearance inside a 1U chassis is not a place for a close-enough substitute.
Services
Around the hardware
The work that turns a box of components into something you can fit during a maintenance window without surprises.
Part identification
Send a photograph of a label, a partial number, or just the platform and slot. Identifying obsolete parts from incomplete information is a significant share of what we do, and we do not charge for it.
Sourcing to specification
Where a part is not on our shelf we go and find it, and the quotation distinguishes clearly between held stock and sourced stock so you know which date you are relying on.
Testing and burn-in
Powered testing as standard; extended burn-in on request for parts going into single-point-of-failure positions.
Spares packages
A costed shelf of spares for a specific platform — power supplies, fans, carriers, cache batteries and a board — sized against your recovery target rather than a catalogue.
Condition documentation
Power-on hours, percentage-used, firmware and revision levels recorded per unit and supplied with the consignment.
Export and logistics
Documentation prepared for the destination country, ESD-safe and shock-protected packaging, tracked despatch worldwide.
Process
From enquiry to despatch
Five steps, and the point of stating them is that you can tell where an order has got to without asking.
- 01 — Enquiry
- Part no. + platform
- 02 — Identification
- Compatibility confirmed
- 03 — Quotation
- Price + despatch date
- 04 — Test
- Powered, documented
- 05 — Despatch
- Tracked, worldwide
Steps 01 to 03 normally complete within one working day for enquiries received Monday to Friday, 9:00 – 17:00.
Start with the platform
Tell us the model and revision and what has failed. That is usually enough.