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> Is there anything even remotely similar around?

There is GnuBee [1] with two models for 2.5" drives [2] and 3.5" drives [3].

2.: https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-1

3.: https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-2

I helped a friend to create home storage with two units (redudancy) of gnubee PC1 (2.5" drives), and setup is ultra useful, fast, low power and reliable (contrary to sibling comments ;) -> highly recommend it.

Usage (few years of happy usage):

* openwrt custom build with patches

* FDE for all drives using linux cryptsetup, including custom patches for cryptoengine (critical)

* big (read x TB) repos served by locally (on gnubee) run syncthing

* big files served for local media devices over ksmbd, (read 4k streams ;)

* drives in raid1 (linux mdraid)

ultra low power for 24/7, with 90% of energy budget for drives.

Highly recommended! But yes, I agree that it required tinkering, skills and time to set up.

I have this thing. It's just about useless imo. The CPU is so low power that it maxes out doing a file transfer making it incredibly slow. It's maybe neat if you want to tinker with open source hardware.

Also weird that they acknowledge that the GNU foundation asked them to change the name yet they seemingly won't ever do that.

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