NV+ Motherboard upgrade?

I appreciate your efforts to sell me more Netgear products, but that's not really not my question. I'm looking for a way to extend the life of my existing hardware. Remember when Intel ignored the overclockers fearing it would eat into their pricing model while AMD embraced them? That was probably the last time AMD made significant gains in market share. What BMW & Honda understand (Ford and GM not so much, maybe BMW less so now) is that making a product with high resale value down the line improves your new line sales, and doesn't undercut them.

I'm not sure where Netgear wants to stand in that line, but the simple logic is having a DIY upgrade path for old products improves the likelyhood of someone purchasing the new products, even when they have no interest in upgrading the product themselves. One reason is the old products then have greater resale value rather than having to become door-stops or additional landfill.

So with that in mind, back to my original question: (Perhaps we can start new threads on "ReadyNAS market strategy" and "Why you should buy an Ultra" :-) What are my options for upgrading an old NV+ chassis? If the motherboard shape & mounts are too customized, can I strap something outside the chassis and run the SATA cable out the back? (maybe a Sandy Bridge with a 6-Gbps SATA?). I can't believe no one has tried this. Note, there still is an extremely painful conversion process due to the Sparc byte-order here. Please don't be concerned that a solution for this is going to kill the sales of the Ultra line.