Desktop Recommendation

[goobernoodles]

Looking for some recommendations for a beefy desktop for use at home for my company's president. While I believe he really only does web browsing, office and email related tasks, I basically can spend what I want on this, though I don't want to overspend on unneeded items.

-I need 3 monitors + mount
-I'm thinking 2 1tb SSD's in RAID 1 with a 3rd as a hotspare, paired with a hardware RAID controller for some hardware redundancy.
-2-4tb data drives in RAID 1.
-i7
-16gb+ memory
-Decent video card that can handle 3 monitors

I'm thinking of something along the lines of a Dell XPS 8700, but it looks like it may make sense to get a relatively low end model with the processor I want, and add a video card, raid controller, memory and drives.

 

[mfenn]

Do you want to be tech support on it? Or do you already get paid to be tech support on his home PC?

If not, I would probably point him towards a Dell Precision. You can definitely build a Precision out the way you're wanting to, and it has a warranty on the whole system.

 

[goobernoodles]

Yeah, I'll definitely provide support but I was hoping to have on-site hardware support in the event something fails. Trying to cut down on scenarios where I need to go out to his house, considering Murphy's law states it always happens on a weekend.

 

[Charlie98]

I'd probably skip the RAID setup too... it's just a browser. More stuff to go wrong.

 

[mfenn]

If you're looking for on-site hardware support that's not you, then you'll definitely want to go OEM. For the drive configuration you're looking at, the HP Z440 seems like the best fit.