OpenSSD – Open-Source Solid State Drive (SSD)

Seems like the project might be dead. It was based on a controller chip from a company Indilinx [0] that went bankrupt and was sold off to Toshiba. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indilinx

A bit from Libreboot that is relevant: https://libreboot.org/faq/#firmware-hddssd > HDDs and SSDs are quite complex, and these days contain quite complex hardware which is even capable of running an entire operating system (by this, we mean that the drive itself is capable of running its own embedded OS), even GNU/Linux or BusyBox/Linux. Some proof of concepts have been demonstrated. > For HDDs: https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1 > For SSDs: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554

My understanding is that this is a largely academical board, designed for use by universities. They might be successful in such a realm - although I suspect any professor worth their salt will be given dev boards by a hardware company for their research. Beyond that, I don't see this to be a particularly useful project - it's sad but the competition in industry would make open source competition difficult, commercial implementations are mature, and it's hard to do SSDs…