Acer easyStore H340 Windows Home Server eyes-on
By Darren Murph 
posted March 5th 2009 5:14PM
posted March 5th 2009 5:14PM
posted March 5th 2009 5:14PM
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how many places does the thing need to have acer printed on it. seriously come on
Never looked at a proper server or data array? Typically the drives will all be branded and bear a logo of some kind - especially seeing as they all have different hotswap /mounting cradles, it's not unusual to see the brand name 16 times or however many drives you have in at a time.
Hence the four Acer's inside - one on each drive.
The Altos one looks nicer, though...! Any word on pricing yet? I can't se anything in the posts although I may have missed it.
Buy it?
... but it's an Acer
Google "Acer" and you'll see what I mean.
Seriously... an Acer
not only did i notice the Acer logos...
but they use the same exact FONT from Spider-Man and Playstation
:D Funny stuff... you can see it on the HDD labels (on the outside lid, where it says #1/2/3/4)
This could revolutionize kids stealing porn from parents.
Who steals porn from their parents anymore?
Looks nice, unfortunately in my setup Windows Home Server is a deal breaker, how hard would it be to slap Linux on one of these?
R U Kidding? It is a great network citizen. Just using the words network citizen shows that I know what I am talking about. Even works for time machine w/ 1 little mac tweak. itimemachine.app
One of the photos say that it's NON-hotswappable...
Isn't that a little odd? I thought it would be able to act like a Drobo and you'd be able to swap out a failing drive without losing everything. I don't know if I'd put multi-terabytes of content on there without some sort of redundancy. Or maybe you can, you just have to shut it down first.
In Windows Home server, you cannot just take out the drive like a Drobo. You have to go to the control panel and tell Windows to "remove" the drive from the pool, then after it did what it need to do to keep the data (copied it to the other drives), it will tell you that you can remove the drive. This can take a while when dealing with terabytes of data. Not as convenient as the drobo for sure, but you don't have to shut the machine down. Adding a drive, however, is plug-n-play. Just shove a new drive in, Windows will automatically detects it, and you just tell it to add the drive to the pool. Redundancy, unfortunately, is not on by default in Windows Home Server, you have to specifically tell Windows to do folder duplication on the folders you want redundancy.
The non hotswap drive is the OS one, so effectivly you lose a drive bay, which seems a little pointless. Why they can't put the OS on an internal SSD/flash drive I don't know. Small quanities of flash cost practically nothing.
I prefer the Altos design. More holes = better ventilation, considering this is a server that will be on for 24/7. I don't need a glossy appearance that only blocks airflow.
I have been looking for a case just like this the only one i have seen is
http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=11999 but I am no way paying over £100 for a case. If the Acer is cheap I could be tempted to get it fling on freeNAS and it's PARTY TIME
Windows home server. So now you can have windows lose terabytes of data on you?
If you don't know anyone (or 2 or 3) who hasn't had to recover all the data on a drive windows scrambled I'd like to live in your world.
WHS is actually a really nice little system; don't be blinded by your MS hate here.
is that a pci expansion slot? damn i'd love a small home server with a tuner
WHERE'S HELLO KITTY????