Asus serves up Windows 7 Home Server box
2TB of on-board storage - add more using eSata
Updated Asus has taken the wraps off a home server build out of an Atom processor and up to 2TB of internal storage.
The Home Server TS Mini uses the 1.66GHz Atom N280 allied with 1-2GB of 800MHz DDR 2 memory to run Windows 7 Home Server.
Asus' Home Server TS Mini: bionic nettop, basically
On-board storage slots into a pair of 3.5in Sata drive bays, but there are six USB 2.0 and two eSata ports round the back so you can hook up extra drives and back up the internal storage. It's networked through a Gigabit Ethernet port.
The server is 245mm high with a 204 x 96mm footprint, so it's not exactly tiny. Fully laden, it weighs 3.9kg. It consumes between 24.5W and 27.9W, Asus said, depending whether it's idling or thrashing the hard drives.
That makes it "a good choice for 24x7 non-stop data centre operations", Asus claimed - should you be running such a service in your home, that is.
Update
Asus has now confirmed that the TS Mini will debut here in Q1 2010 for around £299. ®
COMMENTS
file server with no redundancy?
one might as well toss their files in the rubbish.
and i don't mean obsolete raid level 1 or 5 or 6.
i am still waiting for such an appliance with (probably opensolaris and) raidz.
Re: ChrisInBelgium
That's strange, I have two Atom-based PC's with Win7 running at home and they fly like the proverbial off a shovel. In fact, having bought the first and being so impressed with it's Win7 performance I sold my Core2Duo desktop system and bought the other to replace it with. They are both dual-core NVidia ION machines with 2GB RAM but Atom's none the less.
Coinkidink
Interesting to read this the morning after I ordered an Artigo A2000 and 2x 2TB Seagate drives. The Artigo's been around the best part of a year, and has a very similar spec.
Atom and Win7 is FAIL anyway
I have an Asus EeePC in test, with an Atom 1.33 Mhz and 2 GB Ram, and with Win7, it is slooow. Nothing to do with the poor netbook I'd say. I have also an Acer with the same Atom processor and only 1 GB of Ram, and it's twice as fast with XP on it. So, if you want a slow home server, go for it!
Windows 7 Home Server??
There's no such thing as Windows 7 Home Server, the version of Home Server designed to work with Windows 7 clients is Windows Home Server Power Pack 3.
