It was all good until reading the "Trusted Platform Module" is included.

Ugh.

they are *servers*.

it's ok to have TPMs in servers.

it's not ok to have them in your computer, because of all your pirated software, or pirated porn, righ?

I never quite understood why the rack version is $250 more than the tower - is it a volume issue?

I have a nice rack in my comms room for the lovely servers, and half of it is taken up with towers lying on their sides on shelves!

It's a shame, since a tower-on-a-shelf is about 5U, but the same spec in a rack is only 1U (or 2U if you want lots of disks), but $250 plus the cost of the rails (extra with Dell - it's like flying Ryanair...) is quite a premium for a sexy server room and CDs that don't fall out when you eject...

I think tower servers should be banned - real IT systems are 19 inches wide!

I think you'll find modern tower servers ARE 19" high, especially so they too can be fitted into racks if required. In fact I know Dell for one sell conversion kits to rackmount at least some of their towers.

Sometimes all those extra slots and drive bays are super-useful for building beefy servers.

Paris 'cos she could do with a decent rack ;-)

Ever hear of a SAN? How about iSCSI?

Who even uses local disk anymore? Oh right ... the same people who would buy a Dell ... Cheap Asshats!

erm......iSCSI.......did you hear who Dell bought?....ever heard of Equallogic?......sounds like these are the perfect little pizza box for an iSCSI SAN