[maccard]

That's pretty mental.

Those Xeon E5's are 50w at idle, plus 10w for the 10Gb Ethernet, before you add any storage. A core 3 N300 is 1/10 of the power usage, for ~85% of the performance. Integrity at the filesystem level is required _anyway_ but if you want ECC ram, there's a bunch of AMD processors with similar power usage.

[RamRodification]

Just slap some solar panels on it!

[maccard]

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

There’s a handful of these projects about. You’d need a moderate battery but it’s just about doable!