Tranquil PC's SQA-5H home server: 5 bays, Atom 330, the works
By Darren Murph 
posted Oct 17th 2008 11:58PM
posted Oct 17th 2008 11:58PM
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Watch this thing being priced for something like $500 ...Great British Pounds!
Unless this thing is priced right it is just going to be added to an already long list of great devices that only corporations with large budgets can afford
Usually you use £ to represent a pound of sterling.... $ is the dollar symbol.....
Really? I'd get shot if I recommended this for a business application.
Phew... Thats why I asked "Really?"
The shootings keep me on my toes between meetings, otherwise it would be rather boring.
Looks like it fits my bill perfectly. Need to find a way to reduce my 510w (average consumption) server's power usage down a bit.
I just hope you can specify it without Winblows home server, as 'nix serves my requirements perfectly, and that its less than £250 without HDDs
This thing is a beauty... it will be $2k easily unfortunately...
Coooool. Hope it can run bittorrent too.
Anthony,
this is a home server to begin with and I'm being sarcastic in my statement implying that another home product is probably going to be aforded by a corporation only (which in turn will not need this as this is a home product)... catching my drift?
...but in any case have you considered a place of work where peope do less shooting :)
Ah another great example of Engadet's comment system.
*drools*
Mmh thats nice, but when am I gonna see the Atom 330 in a netbook( like say the Lenovo IdeaPad S10)? I know the dual core atom is out there and its the only thing stopping me from buying a netbook now. Atom 330 + 2GB max RAM + 6 cell battery= me clicking the checkout button. I'll even settle for max RAM of 1.5GB, damn I'll even force myself to tolerate a 1GB max, just give me the Atom 330.
The Microsoft XP licence state single processor and 1gb max. This is why you can't buy a netbook with more than 1gb. You will get your specs with Vista or Linux only.
NO dual core atom for netbooks until the next major revision next year. Dual core atoms are for desktops only. Unless a company takes it on themselves to put one in a netbook of which I have seen only one example.
To be accurate, Windows XP Home has the one processor limit in the EULA. Windows XP Professional has a 2 processor limit. Neither EULA mentions RAM or memory. At least those are the conditions in the EULAs that shipped with my software.
To be more accurate - since the device apparently ships with Windows Home Server, does anyone have a copy of its EULA?
Aw man, >_> way to kill my excitement. I also found out the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 has some serious heat issues, so now I'm definitely not hitting the checkout button. If it isn't one thing, it's a another, don't they check these things. Don't u like money Lenovo?
@Alexandre Emond
I don't mind upgrading the RAM myself, I won't let MS sucker me out of getting max performance out of my product(atom N270 can handle up to 2GB). I heard the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 had two 2 memory slots, but as it turns out only one is user accessible( max 1GB slot) and the other is 512MB soldered to the motherboard.
I thought MS calls a dual core chip one "processor" for the purposes of licensing. Or did they make a varation on that policy for netbook licences?
I'm Hella drunk... and alone.... rate me up?
ionno, maybe this'll cheer you up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-ItfWY3xMQ
My fantasy price would be $200 without drives.
glorified nas, nothing more.
Corporations don't waste their budgets on toy computers like this. Their employees live in the age of the fully-loaded $300 quad-core tower too.
As a consumer item, it doesn't seem to have any RAID options, which is a shame. I guess I should save my pennies for a DROBO.
Is must have RAID, if not it's a no-go, who would have 5.0 TB of files on a system without RAID 5?!? PLEASE have RAID..
The expansion enclosure looks cool too. 10 x 1.5TB mmhhhhh
I can't believe that it would launch without RAID support, but the pdf info sheet doesn't contain any of the following terms: RAID, redundant, mirror, etc. As Masta has already said, it must have RAID, it would be utter madness not to.
no, please! please do not buy a drobo! They are painfully slow.
much better off with a thecus product! they have nas's that range from two to eight bays now.
b, are your experiences with USB or Firewire Drobo? The Firewire model supposedly has a better chip in it, not to mention a faster connection.
I'm in the market for a new Nas and in this kind of devices I sure value function over form, but this one seems just a bit too gaudy and colorful for my taste.
It must have some special tricks up its sleeve or a very interesting price to convince me to take it home otherways it's gonna be another HP media vault or maybe a Linksys I'm gonna check out during the week end.
Or? Do you guys have any suggestions for a sensible WiFi enabled, multimedia oriented NAS?
This is Windows Home server and WHS does not support Raid. That is why there is no raid controller.
Does WHS not even support hardware RAID?!?
I was seriously looking forward to this, but without RAID I don't see the point. That means you would have to mirror everything..
I would like to get Windows 2003 Server running on it. (NO need to talk about piracy, we get it free from the University here... NOT a trial version)
Drobo is just too slow for words.
Hi Masta
Windows Home Server uses the Drive Extender for data redundancy.
You can grow the storage pool dynamically using disks of different sizes and different connection methods.
The platform is designed to be as simple as possible for people who want it to "just work" without any knowledge of RAID.
Is that even possible? As long as you have the drivers for your card, WHS shouldn't even know the difference.
(and here I am mad that OS X doesn't support 1+0 in software, just 0 or 1 alone)
@jimmy
I will wait until I find a product that is designed to "just work right" rather than "just work".
I've been looking for something like this. NAS are good, but since ZFS/RAID-Z has worked like a dream for me and has so many features, I'd never get a NAS that didn't let me run ZFS on it. Looks like this can handle enough RAM for RAID-Z to work. I'd be curious to see if Solaris (unlikely) or FreeBSD (maybe) would work on it....
Same here. If you throw 2GB of ram in that (or 4GB) that would be more than enough. If you can get OpenSolaris installed on that, and enable iSCSI on your shares, that would be incredible. You'd be somewhat limited on what you could do on your shares (ie: no compression, etc), but still is very nice. I'm currently running OpenSolaris on an X2 BE-2350 with 4GB of ram with 5x1TB drives. Not very power hungry, but wouldn't mind something smaller and easily hidable.
399 pounds is a good chunk of change, i.e. expensive. I wonder how much this will cost in $ and how it compares to a custom built WHS box, with the same goals - low power, quiet, hot swappable drive bays. How much premium we are paying for the good looking case and assembly?
Still expecting a price!
499 pounds! Too rich for my blood.
499 for 1tb and 399 for 500gb way too pricey for me. So Engadget what's the alternatives out there? What can be done with the eee of boxes ? I've out grown my 'slug' and need something slightly more powerful and expandable.
so for a unit with 2GB of RAM and 5 1TB hard drives it's $1, 445.97 plus $78.00 shipping.
uhhhh.......
talk about extremely overpriced.
antec900=$100
intel D975XBX2 mobo with 8 sata ports = $200
Intel Celeron 430 (35W) = $40 (retail box)
2GB ddr2800 RAM = $25
8x1TB HDD's = $800
PSU = $50
WHSPP1=$150.00
total - $1365
and 60% more storage
no thanks, i'll keep my builds
Don't forget to add hot-eject bays and direct-connect backplanes.
You guys catch this line in the SQA-Ex description?
"This SQA-Ex will also connect to any other Home Server that has a port multiplier enabled eSATA port, ie the HP MediaSmart Server EX470."
Sounds like it might work by itself, and it's a mere £250. Still not fantastic, but much better.