The HomeSync looks interesting but there is no announced price from Sammy. Hopefully, it will not cost more than $150, that would be acceptable for such a media player.

I am curious when will NAS producers switch to such powerful SOCs (although may be overkill in many cases).

On all ARM chip producer pages, they claim ARM CPUs are cheap. But I don’t see it – as soon as such CPU is placed on a PCB, no matter how much other components are on this board, it becomes close or more expensive than full featured x86_64 solution like ASUS C60M1-I. Maybe the PCB manifacturers think that linux enthusiasts ‘re going to make big money with it ?

NAS producers like QNAP and Synology will jump on it very soon, no doubt about that but there’s not gonna be much joy for those customers who are looking to score a good deal. These companies have been ripping gullible customers off for ages with their overpriced NAS devices based on dirt cheap ATOM and ARM boards.

If you know a little bit of Linux, you would be better off waiting for one of these bare bones board based off the A15 to hit $100 and then set up linux on it to make your own NAS.

Yeah, their pretty… The install routines these days are pretty simple with extensive online support. Web based gui for Linux has been around almost longer than my kids. (Webmin?) It is too easy to assemble small efficient systems these days for specific services (with a little Google). I understand that things are priced for what you can get, not what they cost + profit, but with a little learning, one can save much.