We’ve featured Tranquil’s Harmony T7-HSA Home Server a couple of times at We Got Served, and it looks like they’ve won the race to get the world’s first Windows Home Server system to market!
The system is now pre-ordering and will be shipped as soon as Tranquil receive the RTM build from Microsoft (which should be any day now, although they’re quoting “mid-September or earlier”) with the following base specification:
- Small, quiet T7 Fan less appliance (optimised for vertical orientation)
- Internal 500GB HDD
- 512MB DDR2 RAM
- Ethernet connectivity
- USB2.0 ports for up to 4x additional external HDDs
- Windows Home Server installed
- Power consumption < 24W
- Integrated power for up to 4x USB2.0 external 12VDC HDDs (single PSU required).
- Windows Home Server Client CD, and recovery CD
The base specification is priced at £338 (ex VAT)/ £397.15 (inc VAT) with the following upgrade options:
Memory - upgrade to 1024Mb: £19
Hard Disk - upgrade to 750Gb: £119 1Tb: £169
Whilst the small footprint of the system mean that there’s only room for one internal hard disk, Harmony are also offering External USB drives at 320Gb (£59 + VAT) and 500Gb (£74 + VAT).
If you want to know more, check out PC Pro’s review of the unit and Tranquil PC’s blog.
Pre-order: Harmony T7-HSA Home Server
August 16th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
It’s just a shame it doesn’t have two internal drives…. although the external drives do look cool and the no additional power is a great advantage.
August 17th, 2007 at 10:30 am
It’s also a shame it doesn’t have Gb lan connection? - Won’t we need that for multi media streaming in the future?
August 17th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Martin, re Gb LAN - true. But see what the real world tests confirmed :
“The only other bottleneck - the use of 10/100 rather than Gigabit Ethernet - isn’t a real-world issue, either. We ran three simultaneous 720p HD video streams to different clients (plus a stream of music for good measure), and were pleased that everything continued running without any issues.”
PC Pro (Aug 2007)
August 20th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
David - That seems promising, but are there any plans for Tanquial to have a Gb Lan in the future? I’m (and I’m sure outhers) will want to future proof as much as possible. Cheers
August 20th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Martin, At present the systems are based on 10/100. Of course we have had a ground swell of questions - the major one being Gbe. We listen ! We are now evaluating a Gbe design, and if it completes the design and test cycle, we may see it within 6-8 weeks. Keep your eye on our blog for new information : http://green-pcs.co.uk
Our T2-HSA systems (due November 2007) will certainly have Gbe, but loads of other goodies too - (like support for 10’s TBs !!)
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Good news !!
Gigabit announced - and a CPU boost too
http://green-pcs.co.uk/2007/08/23/t7-hsa-now-with-gigabit-we-listened/