Joins the crowd ready for Christmas
Medion is to launch a home server in Britain priced under £500 with twin 250GByte hard drives and running Microsoft’s Windows Home Server operating system, it announced yesterday..
The drives are set up to mirror each other to protect digital data and will also bacxk up any PC on the network.
The server has no monitor but packs USB ports to connect extra external storage if necessary. It also has four slot-in drive bays, each capable of taking a 2Gbyte disk to provice up to 2Tbytes of stoage.
Fujitsu-Siemens has already unveiled Celeron-based Scaleo home server, which comes in 1Tbyte and 500Gbytes versions costing around 800 euros and 500 euros respectively. It will be available in November.
Storage specialist MaxData will release a system called the Belinea at around the same time. Few details are available, except that it uses an AMD chip. A HP home server will not launch until January.
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