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How is the power bill for this device going to be? Because my SGI Octane which I used back early 00s was drawing a lot (as did the AlphaServer DS10L), and also was a nice heater in the winter (not in the summer...). Which is why I avoid old hardware these days. Especially worth considering given current EU gas and electricity prices.

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Cheap Atom boards seem probably the best solution that doesn't cost a fortune to set up small servers without resorting to very old hardware. My home (Xigma) NAS employs a D410 CPU on a used Supermicro X7SPA-L board and does its job nicely with two RAID 1 sets. The CPU TDP is 10 Watts, plus chipset and disks; being single core doesn't seem to be an hindrance to its functionality. Hopefully ARM boards will bring even lower power figures, but they're still a bit expensive if one needs many SATA ports. The Helios64 platform looked very promising, but sadly it tanked.

How did the Helios64 Tank? I own one and it's fine?

The manufacturer stopped production and support last summer.

https://blog.kobol.io/2021/08/25/we-are-pulling-the-plug/

Very sad as it was a really interesting device.

https://kobol.io/

It consumes about 30 watts.

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