Remember you can get an HP Prodesk G3 400 or some such for $60 refurbed with far more hardware capabilities if you don't need the portable form factor, gpio, or power consumption.
It's actually a better deal for home servers.
It's actually a better deal for home servers.
Prodesk G3: 24 hours * 365 days * 35W * 1000W/kW * $0.30/kWh = $91
Raspberry Pi 5: 24 hours * 365 days * 12W * 1000W/kW * $0.30/kWh = $31
It's likely that 12W over-counts for the Raspberry Pi 5 and 35W under-counts for the Intel chip, so it might be even worse than this.
With that logic, the $20 in difference of $30 per year vs $10 per year of Pi is fairly meaningless for performance boost I am getting.
If your electricity is expensive, sure, but I imagine the performance boost would be worth it for an actual homeserver that a G3 can make vs a tinkering/fun project you can make with a Pi.
wait...
https://www.pge.com/tariffs/Res_Inclu_TOU_Current.xlsx
I can't tell what my current rate really is, but seems like average is 38.2c/kwh
yes its double the price, but in terms of power usage its ~4 watts at the plug at 50% load, (vs 30) and more over a million times faster.