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Old 23rd July 2008
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I guess go with the Thecus... for slightly more, you can build a fresh PC in mini-ATX form factor and stuff it with HD's that aren't hot-swappable. But then again, I guess that falls out of your conditions of it being a strict appliance.

I had discussed a similar topic in PM's with another member here- regarding OpenBSD in an applicance role. And he was right in what he told me- it will normally be the case that there are limited OpenBSD applicance-type hardware because the OBSD project itself doesn't collaborate with the hardware industry in development of said devices ahead of time, like FreeBSD or Linux does. It just isn't in the purview of the project.

It would be interesting to see if the Netgear MyBook line was able to boot OBSD... a cursory googling doesn't reveal that it's been done previously.
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