Cisco rv345. Those are cheap used, and give you a ton of customization options in software, and are rack mountable.
OkBandicoot2958
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My logic is this - if it’s for Linux ISOs only, go ahead and get it; if it’s for backups and important files - brand new is the only acceptable answer. (You can shuck them to save a few $$, but new none the less).
There are two ways to approach this: For $500 a pop you can build a pretty decent desktop with current hardware with warranties for that piece of mind. Or, you can head on to eBay and get something like R730 server for $600-$700 with dual 20 core CPUs and decent amount of RAM. Use Free versions of Citrix Hypervisor or XCP-NG as your OS and deploy as many Windows VMs as you need. Then setup snapshot schedule for each vm for backups, configure RDP, and off you go.