Oops! I just nuked my lemmy instance and the other post wasn’t in by backups, sorry about that! please don’t reply to the other post because I can’t see it

Reposted:
Hello, I’m looking for a good first server for a homelab. I do already have an old Dell poweredge 1950 I got for £30 but it’s:

Loud
Draws 350W
Costs too much to run
Only has 2 HDD slots
DRAC card needs Internet explorer

I’m not too bothered by the noise because I can just move it, but the electricity cost is quite ridiculous for something less powerful than my PC in every way. I live in the UK so electricity prices are a huge factor for this.

My Ideal specs are:

~16 cores (total)
>= 128GB RAM
~100W idle power draw
>= 4 3.5" HDD bays
Preferably HBA mode on RAID card
£100-200
2U

Is this completely unreasonable? I have found servers that match this all except the 3.5" bays and 2U. Initially I found a Dell server with 128GB of RAM and two 12 core CPUs for about £200 but I realised it only has 2.5" bays. There is a nice R720 on ebay I am watching but it will probably skyrocket near the end of the bid. Also, it probably draws a lot of power. Any suggestions? do I just need to raise my price? Thanks