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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.