Jeff, if you do end up with a noise-friendly place to rack a server then options open up. The last dl360 I bought was less than $1k and came with a Mellonox du

Jeff, if you do end up with a noise-friendly place to rack a server then options open up. The last dl360 I bought was less than $1k and came with a Mellonox dual port 40 gigabit NIC. Equipment is still cheap in the used market because those who haven't just moved to the cloud are still upgrading to newer and faster servers and networks as older servers and switches are fully depreciated and scrapped. Eventually that stream will diminish but the cycle will repeat every few years.