New to the server game. Looking at these to add to homelab.

canoj

I am really interested in learning and playing with vmware and even some Microsoft server. I also want to play around with CUCM more (I have the image from work already). I just need help evaluating these servers from a local post to see what I need.


Notorious 16 Cores ($400) -poweredge R715 32gig 6x 160gig satadrives 2.5 inch, 32GB ecc dru , 2 dual 8 core opteron 6134, 2.3 ghz , rack rails

Data monkey 8 Cores ($150) 16gig RAM, poweredge 2950, xeon e5405 2ghz x2, 4x146GB 15k sas, rack rails

Geobeast 8 Cores ($200) poweredge 2950 16GB, 6x146GB 15k sas, 2 x5460 3.14ghz, rack rails


Unmarked dell 8 cores ($150) poweredge 2950 , 6 x 73GB 15k sas drives, 16GB, fully buffered ddr2, 2x xeon 5335 2ghz quad cores, rack rails

Poweredge 2950 8 cores 4x 15k 73 sas drives, power edge 2950, 16GB, fully buffered ddr2, 2 dual core xeon 5450 3ghz-, rack rails


Axiom Tomcat 8 cores ($250), poweredge 2950, 4 x 30GB ssd, 16GB fully buffered ddr2, dual quad core intel 2.4ghz, cpu xeon e5430 family 6 model 15 4096K of cache, rack rails

Supermicro 8 Cores ($250) 2 quad core Opteron 2378, 2.4ghz, 8 gigs memory,Drives- 6x500 TB , 4x1 TB, 2x750 TB, rack rails




Out of these, which would be sufficient for my needs. I am not looking to break the bank or anything. Keep in mind that I live in Alaska so if there are prices cheaper, usually the shipping kills it Thank you and excuse my ignorance.

NotHackingYou

For just playing around the 2950's should do you just fine.