I picked up a weird little “Avigilon” server that I couldn’t find a single listing for online—which is hilarious, because once you pull off the disguise it’s basically a Dell PowerEdge R220… except it’s actually an OEMR XL R220 (so yeah, an R220 with more issues). I grabbed it off Facebook Marketplace bundled with a disk shelf, and the whole reason this thing is interesting isn’t raw performance—it’s the size. At 1U and about 15.5 inches deep, it’s the kind of short-depth server that can actually fit in smaller racks (or, in theory, in dumb places like under a dryer… which, sadly, it didn’t). I go through the specs (E3-1220 v3, DDR3 ECC support up to 32GB, three SATA ports/bays, PCIe Gen3 slot), power and noise, and what it’s realistically good for in 2025: compact NVR duties, a small media server, a Proxmox node, or even a router. I tested Jellyfin (and why you’ll want a GPU for transcoding), set up Frigate with a Tesla P4 for TensorRT object detection, and even ran a Minecraft server just to see if the old Haswell Xeon would fall over. The big takeaway: the R220 form factor is awesome, upgrades help a lot, but this OEM variant made something as basic as a BIOS update an absolute pain—so unless you get a killer deal, I’d avoid the OEM ones.