Lacie Ethernet Disk

The Lacie Ethernet Disk was a personal Network Attached Storage (NAS) disk system
running up to 2 TB of storage accessible over your local LAN delivered by an embedded version
of Windows XP. It was (in my opinion) severely underpowered even then. It was delivered in a
1U rack-mounted unit.
Reference: Lacie.com

LACIE ETHERNET DISK
Manufacturer	Lacie
Release date	ca. 2007
Operating system	Windows XP Embedded
CPU	VIA C3 800 MHZ
Memory	256 MB RAM

The story:
Summary:	I obtained this computer in 2022. I did not quite know what to do with it, but I was always thinking of repurpose it for something useful as the low-powered 800 MHz processor was quite under-powered already at release. I have therefore upgraded the components "under-the-hood" to make it more usable in this decade.
Exterior:	The exterior was in exemplary condition not having been used what so ever.
Interior:	The interior was also in superb condition. There were no issues with the motherboard, PSU, RAM or HDDs what so ever. Everything was working as it was designed, but severely under-powered. I therefore decided to upgrade the unit to more modern hardware to make it more usable.
Upgrades:	The computer has had a replacement of motherboard, RAM and SSDs/HDDs. The low-powered VIA C3 800 MHz CPU seemed to be outdated already during release. I was unable to use it as anything else than what is was designed for, and I couldn't find any use-case for it today. I therefore found a Zotac ITX integrated motherboard/CPU with an Intel Atom D525, 2-core, 1,6 MHz CPU to install. It is old enough (ca. 2012) to not be a huge upgrade. It takes up to 4 GB DDR2 RAM, but I only had 2 GB available. I installed a 128 GB SSD as well as a SATA HDD for local backup storage. The unit is now being used as a host for this webpage and is running Linux Debian 12 and CloudPanel as management panel for the web server.