I have a couple of Pi5s running nodes and they actually didn’t do too badly.
The one with the 18TB spinning rust struggled a bit wit IOWait (unsurprisingly) but the one with 14TB of SSD space did OK 
So don’t discard the potatoes just yet 
I have a couple of Pi5s running nodes and they actually didn’t do too badly.
The one with the 18TB spinning rust struggled a bit wit IOWait (unsurprisingly) but the one with 14TB of SSD space did OK
So don’t discard the potatoes just yet