Asus releases Atom-powered home server

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David Flynn23 November 2009, 9:00 AM

No, it’s not called the EeeServer... but Asus will be happy if the TS Mini home server enjoys even a fraction of the success of its Atom-powered EeeSiblings.


Asus has become the latest big brand vendor to hop onto Microsoft’s Windows Home Server bandwagon, even if that wagon is still just trundling along.

The TS Mini system, announced last week and due for local release “early next year”  according to an Asus spokeswoman, is built around a 1.66GHz Atom N280 with two 3.5 inch drive bays.



The server ships with one bay already filled: the US configurations are a 500GB drive for US$349 and a 1TB drive for US$529.

The rest of the recipe is fairly standard for an off-the-shelf WHS box – Gigabit Ethernet, six USB 2.0 ports and two eSATA ports. However, Asus is including one year’s free subscription to a 500GB online backup service plus software to automatically mirror files stored on the TS Mini against an external USB or eSATA drive.


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Raindog (Senior Forumologist):

Yet more moves in the quest to find a market for an under done server at the same $$$ as a real one.
Atom boards have some real advantages in being able to be cramme into really tiny boxes, but looks like Asus has taken no advantage of this at all, find the shelf space for this and you'll about have the shelf space for a standard box anyway.

Gig Ethernet + 1.66GHz Atom N280 yeah that'll work with the CPU thrashing about at full click doing everything else. Still Gig looks so much better on those glossy brochure and it's cheap to include.

24 November 2009, 8:29 AM (3 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Ausman (Regular user):

"Home Server" looks like it's been painted on the PC by hand!

26 November 2009, 12:19 PM (3 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

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