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Needed a new small server for my home automation system.

Raspberry Pi 5 4GB £57.30
Case £9.30
512GB SSD kit £52.80

Or (Second hand PC, new SSD)

Lenovo M900 Tiny i5 4GB £40.00
512GB SSD £31.00

Sorry Pi

smallsolar

@linker3000 while the costs are less for the Pi if you can run more services on the leveno then you'll potentially reduce the costs of having to run another device.

As I've learnt from @wim_v12e the energy cost of production may well outweigh the cost of powering a device like this over its whole lifetime - so within reason if you can reuse and avoid new actually this is may be a better approach