Take a close look at that hardware design — it is very much intended to be used exclusively for the purpose it was designed for, with their proprietary HTTP app

Take a close look at that hardware design — it is very much intended to be used exclusively for the purpose it was designed for, with their proprietary HTTP application on top. They are tightly coupled — it is very hard to separate the hardware design from the software that would be running on it. If you were to design a more generally useful storage server, it would look a lot more like the FreeNAS or TrueNAS boxes than it would the Backblaze boxes.