One of my first encounters with the Beautiful BSD Operating Systems was on a machine that Loves Pepper.

It was configured to do one task and do that one task well. The machine was a file server configured to serve diverse clients with speed agility and redundancy. The machine which loved to be called ChiliBox had space for just a couple of hard drives HDDs. That meant that if you want it true redundancy, you had to connect external hard drives
Those enclosures could also be provided by the hardware vendor

The ChiliBox was a fun toy to play with

It served my clients well for a number of years where all that was needed was to swap out hard drives which were worn without losing any data the only patience the client needed to have, is to make the resilvering of the new HDD complete itself.

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