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.

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RamRodification an hour ago | parent [-]

Just slap some solar panels on it!

	▲	maccard 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ There’s a handful of these projects about. You’d need a moderate battery but it’s just about doable!