[gorkish]

> The market is saturated with solutions for middle-boxes that make hard drives talk to networks

It's my experience that these boxes try to do a hell of a lot more than just putting drives-on-network and that is why they all suck and are expensive.

The NVMe-oF fabric devices out there all seem to command a ridiculous premium when the reality is they ought to be very simple and easily cost-optimized.