So an always on network storage in my PC that's sometimes-on. Between NVME-of and pcie that should be doable I would have though. PoE from my router that's got a tiny UPS and that's pretty sick.

Maybe Valve should make it so everyone with a gaming pc it's re-downloading their steam library or running 2 computers just to open a file.

Ideally they would run some kind of cloud vSwitch benchmark that includes encryption (e.g. ESP), encapsulation (e.g. GENEVE), routing, stateful firewalling, NAT, monitoring (e.g. NetFlow/sFlow), etc. It's a lot of work.