Acer Announces Expandable, $400 1TB Windows Home Server
Acer Announces Expandable, $400 1TB Windows Home Server
Posted 05/21/2009 at 7:58am
| by Paul Lilly
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Acer's new easyStore Home Server has made its way to the U.S. in a cool looking cube and sporting Microsoft's Windows Home Server, as well as 1TB of backup storage from the get-go.
"The trend of multiple computer devices per household continues to grow, particularly with regard to mobility. A significant pain point for consumers is how to consolidate and protect their digital data that's spread among multiple devices," said Sumit Agnihotry, Vice President of Product Marketing for Acer America. "Aspire easyStore is the ideal solution for networking home PCs and providing round the clock data protection. Offering remote access to digital data at home from anywhere in the world and automatic daily back-ups, it's the perfect companion to netbooks and notebooks. It's an extremely practical and affordable way to simplify and manage one's personal digital life."
Other hardware and specs includes an Intel Atom 230 processor (1.6GHz), 2GB of DDR2 memory, five USB 2.0 ports, an eSATA port, and a 200W power supply. But the coolest thing about the easyStore is the ability to add more drives via three hot-swappable 3.5-inch hard drive bays on the front of the cube, which potentially ups the ante up to 7TB of total storage.
The easyStore is available now for $400.
Image Credit: Acer
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cherylsarah
July 08, 2010 at 9:07pm
is still we need Rack Server and server rack cooling for this server?
chrlesdikkenson
October 02, 2009 at 12:14am
Really great. Thanks for sharing with us. Great equipment.
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Torx7
May 22, 2009 at 6:47am
Time Machine is the software included in Mac OS X that is used for backups.
Time Capsule is hardware. It is a wireless router that includes an internal hard drive in either 500GB or 1TB. It can also support additional external hard drives through it's USB port.
The Acer NAS and Apple Time Capsule are not comparable. Please do a little research before making a blatantly biased statement like that.
jlh304
May 21, 2009 at 1:48pm
Does the eSATA port support multiplier so you can have more than one hard drive connected to it?
The Canadian
May 21, 2009 at 2:48pm
You do know that you didn't need to post this again, you could have easily edited your previous post..?!
The Canadian
jlh304
May 21, 2009 at 11:55am
Does the eStat port support multiplier so you can more than 1 drive connected?
The Canadian
May 21, 2009 at 8:54am
I wonder if you can replace WHS on this with Linux..?!
The Canadian
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