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#37796 18-Jul-2009 09:51

Saw this at the IngramMicro roadshow... It will be available in New Zealand soon, with one HDD (up to four HDD), Intel Atom CPU, 1 GB RAM, five USB ports, one eSATA port. Nice little unit that goes well on a desk I think :)

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#236628 18-Jul-2009 10:02

I'd love it if they would bring in a clean version with no OS. Would make a lovely Linux based server/NAS.

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#236632 18-Jul-2009 10:15

Good review of this over on wegotserved - http://www.wegotserved.com/2009/04/30/hands-on-acer-aspire-easystore-home-server/

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#236642 18-Jul-2009 12:05

RRP?

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#236644 18-Jul-2009 12:10

About $1000.

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#239335 27-Jul-2009 13:35

mentalinc: RRP?

Not advertising anyone here but the acer home server is available on the 7th August by the looks of it.
http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?itemID=380045

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#239336 27-Jul-2009 13:43

Ingram are showing stock from 6th August.

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#239341 27-Jul-2009 14:07

Damn. Can't they get an OS-free version? Otherwise it is cheaper to build my own.

Right now, I'm looking at a Chenbro chassis to buy from the US for around NZ$400, plus 4x 1TB drives at $150 each. I've got the mini-ITX board with CPU, RAM and a 2.5 HDD for the system.

Chassis: http://usa.chenbro.com/corporatesite/products_detail.php?sku=79
Drives: from PriceSpy (two WDs, two Samsungs for redundancy)

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#239368 27-Jul-2009 15:39

A clean version would be very nice to install freenas or similar on.

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#239372 27-Jul-2009 15:55

I saw this at the IM roadshow as well but they didn't know anything about it.

I bought an Acer Easystore NAS a few months ago and was disappointed to see it only supported the Ext2 file system. I would have liked to see it use Ext3 or Ext4 which are journalling file systems and can therefore recover data in the event of a crash.

Also the firmware is not compatible with the version of NT Backup used on SBS 2003, which was a nuisance since that's the primary reason I had bought it.

I'll only be interested in this new Home Server NAS if it has better firmware and file system.

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#239374 27-Jul-2009 15:57

MackinNZ: I'll only be interested in this new Home Server NAS if it has better firmware and file system.

This unit runs Windows Home Server. It's "NAS" in the name only.

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