Power and noise - old server hardware is not something you want in your home.
Commodity desktop cpus with 32 or 64GB RAM can do all of this in a low-power and quiet way without a lot more expense.
Commodity desktop cpus with 32 or 64GB RAM can do all of this in a low-power and quiet way without a lot more expense.
The only problem in practice is that server CPUs don't support S3 suspend, so putting whole thing to sleep after finishing with it doesn't work.