Reminds me of a WD or Seagate research project. They took a 3U/16 disk chassis and instead of having a linux box inside with SAS to the 16 disks, they put in a

Reminds me of a WD or Seagate research project. They took a 3U/16 disk chassis and instead of having a linux box inside with SAS to the 16 disks, they put in a ethernet switch and ran ethernet to each of the disks, actually two interfaces per disk via SAS connectors (but not protocol obviously). They supported a few key/value stores and claims a big win on less complexity and cool things like migration/rebalancing that could be done disk to disk. I think there was a dev kit for developing for the inside the disk platform. Seemed like a cool idea, not sure what happened to it, I think it was for sale for interested parties, at least for awhile.