Is there a card that has Ethernet ports and some combination of NVME/SAS/SATA ports with a basic processor for a small OS to manage essentially a NAS on a PCIE card to enable a basic desktop PC with a bit of spare storage and a PCIE slot for power.
If that had a SoC to function as it’s own standalone NAS device that would be perfect, I didn’t look at Synology or QNAP because I thought that this product would eat into their market.
Essentially I want to be able to turn an old PC or gaming machine into a NAS.
The MikroTik card I think is the closest to what I am thinking about.
Not a Intel PCIE NUC but I was thinking of my old KillerNIC which ran it’s own network processor on linux back in the day. I was thinking of the same sort of thing but for network storage. I don’t want to use a full external NAS, I have a gaming box that I don’t want to run extra services on, but it has extra storage slots and power, so I was thinking of a way to put that to use without burdening my gaming machine.