Winning the February 2008 “Strangest Named Home Server” award, comes the Zoostorm Silenced Home Server, which is being made available in the UK by Zoostorm over at PC Nextday.
Interestingly, the server is built within a compact AV enclosure, which keeps it cool and quiet and allows you to slot the system under the TV. Specs are as follows:
- Intel Celeron D 352 3.2Ghz processor
- 512Mb DDR2 667 RAM
- 2 x 500Gb Western Digital Caviar 7200rpm with massive 16Mb cache
- 20x Samsung SATA DVD Rewriter
- Contemporary, compact Home Server case
- Integrated 23-in-1 multi format card reader
- Video outputs - VGA, DVI, S-Video, Component (Y/Pb/Pr), 21 Pin Scart output (Rear)
- Sound ouptuts - 7.1 channel audio outputs (rear) Coaxial output (rear) sp/dif output (front) Mic input (front)
- I/O ports - USB 2.0 2 x Front, 2 x Rear IEEE1394 Firewire port (Front)
- 10/100 LAN port
Price is £399 (inc VAT).
More Information: Zoostorm Silenced Windows Home Server
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:43 am
Sorry but 512 MB of RAM will NOT make this box silent. I have HP EX475, so I know what I am talking about. Disk will work REALY hard and loud to keep up with the VM swapping memory back and forth. The minimal memory footprint is 710 MB so .. you need to make 1GB as a minimum.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Neat server size could go in to home theater setup. But why for the love of all things WHS would they limit it by using a 10/100 network connection and 512 MB ram.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Well, probably cost/margins…. that said, if they’ve used a generic chassis, then you may be able to upgrade the RAM… depends on the motherboard. I’ll try to get hold of one of these for review.
Terry
February 4th, 2008 at 10:44 am
What is up with companies building Home Servers with 10/100 network cards?? 1990 called and they want their network cards back.
Gigabit people, gigabit!!