Thank you all for your input, I have had some complication which delayed my purchase.
After further research I am going to buy one of the two below options. Please let me know which one you would choose and why. By the way I'm going to buy it from Cyberport.de as suggested by
@marbus90.
Option 1 (low cost :) )
- DELL PowerEdge T20 - 20-3708 (# Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3 (3,2 GHz, Quad-Core-Prozessor, 8 MB Cache) # 4 GB DDR3 PC3-12800, 1 TB SATA, 24 Month Warranty) - 349,00 EUR
- DELL 8GB DDR3L-1600 UDIMM 2RX8 ECC RAM A - 108,42 EUR
- Seagate Surveillance HDD ST3000VX002 (3TB) 115 EURx3= 345 EUR
- Total of RAM 12GB
Total 802,42 EUR
I have decided to choose the Seagate Surveillance instead of WD RED/PURPLE and Seagate NAS, as the performance was similar and they had the best price per TB ration. I have read a few things about using the WD Greens but decided against them, even though they were the cheapest.
Option 2 (not so low cost :) )
- Lenovo TS140 70A5-A002 GE (# Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3 (3,4 GHz Quad-Core-Prozessor, 8 MB Cache) # 8 GB DDR3 PC3L-12800, DVD Double Layer Brenner # 4 36 Month Warranty) - 529 EUR
- Lenovo 8GB PC3-12800 DDR3L 0C19500 - 114,32 EUR
- Seagate Surveillance HDD ST3000VX002 (3TB) 115 EURx3= 345 EUR
- Total of RAM 16GB
Total 988,32 EUR
Price difference = 185,9 EUR
So here you have it. Months of research and price / quality analysis got me to the above options.
PRO's for Lenovo TS140: 6 SATA ports on the motherboard, E3-1245v3 has HT enabled, which means 8 vCOREs to use, comes with a slim DVD burner (nice to have as I can share it between all the PC's at home).
Cons: Price
PRO's for Dell T20: 1TB HDD included (would use it as a target for the TV recoding), lower price
Cons: only 4 SATA ports, CPU with HT disabled, only 4 GB of RAM.
So the question I have, are the 186 EUR worth the Lenovo investment or should I just get the Dell and call it a day.
Thank you all for your input.