Dell Tower Servers

[Danielh90]

I'm looking to buy a Dell tower server because I wanna start a small little homelab. Play with Active Directory and do some other thing with it. I'm looking to install ESXi. I'm looking at the Dell PowerEdge T30 but not sure if it will do the job. Any suggestions/recommendations on any other dell tower servers would help a lot!

 

 

Edit: Would a PowerEdge T130 Tower Server be good also? 

[Danielh90]

Just now, CUDAcores89 said:

I have no experience with homelab, but I do know the Dell poweredge R410 and R710 are popular low cost servers for home use since they can run up to 12 cores and something like 128GB of RAM.

Aren't they pretty loud?