Review: Dell PowerEdge R330 stands tall for small shops

Choosing a small-business or remote-site server has always involved trade-offs. You can’t spend too much, but you don’t want to aim too short and deploy undersized hardware that you’ll wind up replacing later.

Further, you might not need all the bells and whistles of enterprise-class hardware, but you will need a few key items, such as extensive remote management features, redundant power supplies, hardware RAID, and, of course, reliability.

The Dell PowerEdge R330 has all of these prerequisites, balanced against the need to not bust the budget. This 1U, single-CPU server offers available redundant power supplies, Dell’s solid iDRAC remote management features, adequate RAM with a max of 64GB, and adequate CPU resources for small deployments with support for the Intel Pentium, Intel Core i3, and Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 product families.

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