It could for example include from tiny boards with the bare minimum necessary to host very light services (Single NIC Raspberry/Orange/Nano/Banana PI, etc.) to small sized boards either with storage capabilities or a couple NICs to be used as moderate traffic firewalls (PCEngines.ch APU, etc) and bigger and more powerful systems with multiple NICs for SOHO+ sized servers and firewalls (www.ipu-system.de etc).
Also, this m.2 to SATA port replicator reportedly works perfectly with Linux (Possibly FreeBSD/XigmaNAS too) as do many other JMB575 based cards. Could turn any cheap board into a low cost NAS. https://www.ebay.com/itm/203735847811
Too long for Mini PCs accepting only 2242 modules? Here's the extender. https://www.ebay.com/itm/263570657382
..etc.