“think there is a world market for maybe five computers. .”
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I think in this day and age any developer worth his salt has some virtual servers laying around, be it in the cloud, on a dedicated server, or on their own dev machine. I find having an dedicated box at home dedicated to running virtual servers to be a big help. Sometimes in running a few real servers I need, but mostly as a nice test platform for me to play and experiment in.
I currently have a physical server in my room that has VMWars ESXi 5.0 installed on it, below are the specs.
Software
- ESXI 6.5.0
Hardware

CPU
Intel Quad Core L3360 @ 2.83 GHz
According to CPU Benchmark it has an Avg CPU Mark of 4145
10.0 TiB Total
3.0 TiB Western Digital WD20EADS
4.0 TiB Western Digital WD40EZRX
3.0 TiB Western Digital WD30EFRX
4.0 TiB Western Digital WD40EZRX
3.0 TiB Western Digital WD30EFRX
MSI N210-MD512H
http://us.msi.com/product/vga/N210MD512H.html#hero-overview
I bough this for because its fanless
Here are a few actual pictures of my system
I hope to replace this system within the next 8 months. I want to go quieter, lower power needs, and higher redundancy. I am hoping to go all fanless or nearly all fanless. Bump up to ESXi 6.0, 32 or 64 GiB, an LSI raid card to support a raid 5 system. Anyone out there have an ESXi 6.0 whitebox at home with raid? (if so send me some recommendations on raid cards I should use)