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It’s proprietary and easy mini homelab equipment for people who have an interest in home servers but not the time, skills or skills to setup their own.


Yes, I get that and I think it's a very cool device (given that it has sufficient IO for ones purpose).

What I don't understand is why the casing around the board itself is so well designed and good looking. To me it looks like a "finished" self-contained device on its own. But if you use it together with, say, 2 3.5" HDDs you'll surely need some enclosure around the enclosure. At that point an "ugly" Raspberry PI-style board would have been just as good.

Granted, OP makes good use of the board enclosure, but needs to DIY a case in order to do so.


Because they are selling a solution, not a single board computer for people who want to really tinker.

It's for people who want to plug it in, follow instructions from a YouTube video and leave it alone.




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