I'm right there with you. There are some pilikes like Espresso Bin that are much more powerful, but they just don't have the community support that Pi does.

I'm right there with you. There are some pilikes like Espresso Bin that are much more powerful, but they just don't have the community support that Pi does. http://espressobin.net/ http://espressobin.net/ Still at $49 it's cheap enough I'm going to see if it'll work as a wall-of-ceph appliance. Would love to have an SBC designed to be an OSD node but Western Digital never put theirs in the channel and there's not much else comparable AFAIK.