Dell floats new line of lighter, pared-down servers

Dell is planning a line of stripped down CloudEdge servers - standardised versions of its custom hyperscale data centre servers - for applications that work round fail-in-place hardware. As reported the new servers will be pared down for lower operational and acquisition costs by foregoing things like redundant power supplies …

[Andre 3]

Home use

These would be great for those of us with servers at home - low power use and cheap enough to buy a few. I could think of a number of applications already.

[Nate Amsden]

doubt t

doubt it, I would suspect these systems would be sold at a minimum on a per-rack basis with specialized power & cooling to maximize efficiency.

So unless you want to wire in your own power supply and possibly fans this isn't for home use.

For home use there's already a lot of suitable cheap systems out there.