Back in October we revealed that Velcotiy Micro would be launching a Windows Home Server model, based on the Intel Entry Storage Server reference design. There was a lot of excitement around the hardware spec, and then….. silence. Even worse, the product was pulled from Velocity Micro’s website over the holidays.
Seems like Intel is finally getting its act together and ramping up production of the units, with both Velocity and Fujitsu-Siemens about to receive stock at last. The NetMagix HQ Home Server is now listed once again at Velocity Micro’s website, and is available for pre-order, which a target shipping date of 30th March 2008. Base Price is $899 for which you get the following spec:
Processor: Intel® Pentium™ Dual Core E2140 dual 1.6 GHz cores 1MB L2 Cache
RAM: 1024MB Corsair™ DDR2 PC6400 DDR2-800 (1×1024)
Storage: 500GB Hitachi 7200rpm 16MB Cache SATA 300 w/NCQ
Network: Integrated 10/100/1000MBps Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter
USB: 4 USB 2.0 Ports, 2 front & 2 rear
eSATA: 2 External SATA ports (rear)
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February 13th, 2008 at 1:41 am
Is it just me, or is that thing really ugly?
February 13th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Seems a bit pricy compared to other home server systems.
I could build a system with much better specs, for less…