1) this is just the bitcoin machine with better hardware

2) you could build this easily for half the price

3) 2TB was sufficient for a bitcoin-only product, but not for a home server

4) adding more storage/RAID is an essential feature of home servers and the fact that this is not possible with this product means it will be forever inferior to other home server solutions

i could see this as a gateway home server for people who value convenience, but i think they will quickly run into problems with 1) complexity of software setup and 2) storage size

if someone is too lazy to assemble their own hardware, they will probably struggle with getting the software to do what they want it to do. For example, if i want to self-host my photos library, I probably want to be able to see those photos while away from home, but you can’t access your home server cloud while away from home unless you have a Tailscale VPN set up. Or if i have all my movies on an external drive and i want to be able to watch them on any TV in the house, so then I upload them to nextcloud thinking that is the same as my external drive but in the cloud, but then nextcloud is not optimized for large files or video playback, then i look for apps that are optimized for this function and find there are different torrent-based apps for each type of media [video, music, etc] and they are all somehow inter-related and have weird, scary names(?). And finally when i figure things out and migrated all my photos, videos, and other files, i realize that i’m already hitting 1.9TB of storage and i can’t add any new photos or apps??

i guess the market will be the ultimate judge about whether this is something that people want/value, but these are the reasons why i think this product will end up being unsuccessful