It's been quite some time since we've heard any
noise from Tranquil, but apparently, the firm's T7-HSA server is finally shipping. Notably, these wee machines not only utilize an energy-efficient, fanless design, but it arrives at your door with Windows Home Server under the hood. Granted, you won't be encoding any movie clips or recording 16 tracks of simultaneous audio with the modest 1.5GHz CPU, but it should handle basic media serving / home automation tasks just fine. Nevertheless, those interested can get their orders in now starting at £338 ($686), and you shouldn't have to
wait long before having it in your hands.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Wesburl @ Sep 12th 2007 5:22PM
Can I store my torrents on this "media server"?
WHSuser @ Sep 12th 2007 5:43PM
take a look here : http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1717779&SiteID=50 re Torrents
insertAlias @ Sep 12th 2007 5:24PM
Neat...I've been looking for something like this for a while now
anonymous @ Sep 12th 2007 5:26PM
If I didn't already have a half dozen computers in my house, I'd probably get one of these.
David Clark @ Sep 12th 2007 5:30PM
I think I'll wait for the HP. Lower price + bigger muscle = Better Buy
WHSuser @ Sep 12th 2007 5:46PM
I have to agree - possibly a good choice - but I'm not prepared to wait until 2008, and then I'm keen to save power (as well as my data) the Tranquil is a miser at just over 20W - can't be true ?
Patrick @ Sep 12th 2007 6:58PM
Pricey but very nice
Greg Poole @ Sep 12th 2007 11:37PM
I can see how this would be good for a lot of people who just want to plug it in and don't have many requirements, but one of the things I've learned from my encounters with MS Media Center is that while the product may look slick, it's pretty much always going to work as it did out of the box without some severe hacking. I still believe that anyone looking at serious home automation, media or torrent serving would probably be better served setting up their own vanilla box and customising it as required, whether through linux and open source or windows and whatever else you have.