i don't get the idea here, did they just bring back the very classic co-processor daughter boards of the yesteryears? https://www.anandtech.com/print/13632/qnap-launches-mustang200-compute-accelerator-for-nas QNAP Launches Mustang-200 Compute Accelerator for Network Attached Storage

why does NAS need acceleration?

i suppose they maliciously underspec the tiny arm board on it

maybe if they are doing reed-solomon

but no one does that