(While I appreciate whomever helpfully moved my original post to the "What do I buy" forum, I see that that forum is averaging a post or two a week, and I'm not real confident it's being frequented by members with the type of in-depth PE familiarity I'm looking for?)
This should be a relatively straightforward recommendation, but I don't feel as familiar with the PE lineup as I've been in the past, so I want to make sure I don't overlook anything? Outlet/used is fine, even preferred.
Basically, this is going to a remote office never to be seen again. It will be used mainly as a file/backup server and to remotely monitor/administer the rest of the network and it's PC's, so it doesn't need a ton of horsepower. Non-technical personnel need to be able to replace drives/power supplies and physically move the server.
Seems like we always need to overkill it to get features like hot swap drives, ending up with a server which is loud, heavy, and overheats small closets.
So I'm basically looking for a SOHO PowerEdge with the following features. What's out there or has been out there? Any other advice?
- Tower chassis
- Hardware RAID with hot swap drives.
- Hot swap redundant power supplies
- Full remote access/DRAC Enterprise).
- Relatively quiet
- Relatively light
Thanks, -Joe