On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 05:28:40 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

On 30/06/2019 21:35, wrote:
On Sunday, 30 June 2019 21:05:34 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
+1. BUT I have found an old mini-tower PC that was essentially given to
me as scrap will take up to 4 SATA drives of terabyte level size, ...
....a pi would cost more!

What about the electricity consumption though?

Well its not huge. About 25W I reckon

I bet it's higher than that, depending on how 'old' the hardware was
(from my practical measurements of such things).

Cheers, T i m