Just acquired an Acer Aspire Easystore H342 for home server purposes.

Would welcome any user of similar spec equipment for feedback. 

Thanks 

Well.  I got it for RM1250 cash from the IT Mall PJ.  The software is the WHS, version unknown, but in the beginning of booting up the software thru remote console, it goes online to update all the WHS files with the latest update files.

From what I know, WHS has not received new version for quite some time. Its still based on 2003 Window Server Software.

what is the cheapest price for NAS?

abubin: what site?

Anyone know how to configure the Bittorent download via Buffalo Linkstation Duo?

Whenever I add the torrent url into the utorrent client on the Buffalo Linkstation Duo, nothing happen.

Help!

I can't test that now cause I am running ubuntu on it. But I am planning to install dual boot windows 2008r2 foundation later once I have time to test it out. Then I can test this air video. But it will take some time before I can do this. Cause I have a few articles to write on this microserver and ubuntu tutorial on it.

Hi,

Been looking into getting a NAS and have been reading this topic. And the HP Microserver popped up here but have a few things that still not clear. Please bear with me.

My intended setup:
PC as downloader ---> HP Microserver OR Buffalo Linkstation Pro Duo ---> Gigabit LAN ---> media player

- I read a few users here got the Microserver for Rm900 but on the HP site it's only RM329 wifout hdd I guess. If price same would get the microserver than the linkstation.

- Can the microserver be used as a downloader using megaupload or other hosts?

- can media players with LAN able to access the microserver without the DLNA on it?

Thanks.

thanks guys for discussing and making me aware of the microserver
bought one today, equipped it with xfx geforce 210 (have to remove the bracket to make it fit) and set it up with windows 7 64bit (driver for windows server 2008 r2 works fine)

gonna buy a bluray drive and ups next month
this is gonna be my download box/nas/htpc/print server

Actually, the Black was never marketed for NAS. I think you mistook the Black with the RE4 which is for NAS (like the WD Red).
Thanks for the heads up. Especially useful for people for pop in and who are not aware of the prices and what is the latest available from Synology. If one is prepared to pay the price of the DS412+, might as well go for the 5 bay 1512+ for a little more.

Anyway for people who are budget conscious and using simple file storage and DLNA sharing, the Synology does not make sense. As a comparison, you can get similar performance from the N36L Microserver with 2GB memory and equip it with 5 x 3TB drives in RAID 5 under WHS 2011 and you would arrive at the cost of a bare 5 bay 1512+ with zero drives.

Yeah, one can argue that the 1512+ has USB 3 and dual Gigabit ports. But with not so much money, you can equip the Microserver with a PCIe USB 3 card and a PCIe dual port network card in the x1 and the x16 available slot.
Depends on the capacity of the drives you select but RM 1k for a 4 to 6 disc setup is not possible I think. Taking the cheapest 1TB drives and you are already close to RM 1k.

If you're just looking for the enclosure alone, the HP N36L (not the newer N40L) is going for RM 699 brand new and it can be made to fit 5x 3.5" drives excluding the 160GB OS hardisk even though it's meant to officially fit 4 drives. You need to flash a modified BIOS and use a eSATA to SATA cable to re-use your external eSATA port though.