FYI, the high-priced PiBox config includes TWO each 2 GB SSDs (which you can stripe and/or mirror), so the price is not really at all unreasonable when you cons

FYI, the high-priced PiBox config includes TWO each 2 GB SSDs (which you can stripe and/or mirror), so the price is not really at all unreasonable when you consider the cost of the drives alone are about half the asking price. And just try to get a high spec (8 GB) CM4 these days: Most places are quoting 52 week (indefinite) lead times. The PiBox team managed to negotiate delivery on a big enough batch of these to do their first production run. Color me impressed. FWIW, I've got a PiBox on order (w/o the drives), and I think the price is VERY reasonable. (No relationship other than waiting customer.) The PiBox "mainboard" that hosts the CM4 has much better I/O capabilities than a garden variety RPi 4. I'm actually going to be using mine for a small, light NAS and application server, and I'm confident it will work well.