I bought my current NAS by being fed up with my Apple Time Capsule and sorting by cheapest price and going down the list until I found something suitable. All I needed was storage attached to the network with decent throughput and OS X Time Machine support (=AFP). I ended up with a Synology DS216j.
The GnuBee matches the Synology in price and exceeds it in functionality (aside from the 2.5" drives - seems like an extremely odd choice).
I think the problem with this product is you have two categories of NAS buyers - the ones who want plug and play storage on their network, and the ones who want the best performance and all kinds of esoteric features.
The former will go for a commercial solution like Synology/QNAP, the latter will go for something like what you suggest or a home-made solution.
This product targets the former in specifications, but the latter are the ones who care (or probably are even aware) about open source. Add to that that open source software usually has dreadful usability...
The GnuBee matches the Synology in price and exceeds it in functionality (aside from the 2.5" drives - seems like an extremely odd choice).
I think the problem with this product is you have two categories of NAS buyers - the ones who want plug and play storage on their network, and the ones who want the best performance and all kinds of esoteric features.
The former will go for a commercial solution like Synology/QNAP, the latter will go for something like what you suggest or a home-made solution.
This product targets the former in specifications, but the latter are the ones who care (or probably are even aware) about open source. Add to that that open source software usually has dreadful usability...