Sell off the servers and get some apartment-appropriate machines. You can get a generic tower that hold multiple drives and runs your OS of choice. Since you a

Sell off the servers and get some apartment-appropriate machines. You can get a generic tower that hold multiple drives and runs your OS of choice. Since you are building out a lab then commodity hardware should be fine. That is what I did years ago. You might also consider posting this to webhostingtalk.com They have an great community of data-center folks over there who are in this space specifically. Good luck!