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# 37796 18-Jul-2009 09:51
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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
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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
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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
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RRP?




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  # 236644 18-Jul-2009 12:10
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About $1000.




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  # 239335 27-Jul-2009 13:35
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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
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Ingram are showing stock from 6th August.




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  # 239341 27-Jul-2009 14:07
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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.

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  # 239368 27-Jul-2009 15:39
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A clean version would be very nice to install freenas or similar on.




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  # 239372 27-Jul-2009 15:55
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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
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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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