I recently literally took out of a drawer my old Sony Vaio laptop bought in 2011 and converted to a home server, replacing a RPI4 whose SD card just died (I use

I recently literally took out of a drawer my old Sony Vaio laptop bought in 2011 and converted to a home server, replacing a RPI4 whose SD card just died (I used it for home automation). Well, the performance upgrade has been astonishing for me, probably it was due to the SD vs the SSD in the Vaio but I'm not going back. I'm actually thinking about self-hosting much more now!