Acer Announces Expandable, $400 1TB Windows Home Server
Posted 05/21/09 at 09:58:16 AM 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.
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Really great. Thanks for
Submitted by chrlesdikkenson on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 11:14pm
Really great. Thanks for sharing with us. Great equipment.
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I myself am quite
Submitted by ozarkpcs on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 6:17am
I myself am quite impressed.
win, pure win
Submitted by nekollx on Sat, 05/23/2009 - 4:56am
win, pure win
I will echo a previous
Submitted by Tekzel on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 10:48pm
I will echo a previous sentiment: WANT!
That is one sexy little box.
Ha
Submitted by dreamsburnred on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 6:06pm
Blows the Apple Time Machine clear out of the water ^^.
DBR
Apple
Submitted by Torx7 on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 5:47am
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.
eSata port
Submitted by jlh304 on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 12:48pm
Does the eSATA port support multiplier so you can have more than one hard drive connected to it?
Edited Previous Post
Submitted by The Canadian on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 1:48pm
You do know that you didn't need to post this again, you could have easily edited your previous post..?!
The Canadian
Submitted by jlh304 on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 10:55am
Does the eStat port support multiplier so you can more than 1 drive connected?
Submitted by thebauer on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 9:48am
sound like a good candidate for windows 7 RC!
Submitted by Kaasiim on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 9:19am
This will be my first nas box.
Can't wait to get it.WANT!
Submitted by Defiant on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 8:27am
Thats a dam good deal for $400
Submitted by The Canadian on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 7:54am
I wonder if you can replace WHS on this with Linux..?!
The Canadian
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