Thread: Acer easyStore H340

U.S. customer have been stopped to two option when it comes to deploying a Windows Home Server machine. They could roll their own or they could purchase one of HP’s MediaSmart models. Now there’s a relatively third option on the market Acer’s Aspire easy Store H340.

The server is firm in an attractive cube-shaped closed measuring 7.9 inches wide by 7.1 inches deep by 8.3 inches high. A large power button many blue LEDs, and a USB port comes from the left end with four blue drive-bay LEDs on the right.



The front door moves open to come four hot-swappable 3.5-inch disk bays the base of which is taken by a 1TB SATA hard drive. Drives can be included or taken off without ever having to power down the server you have to pull out a tray join the drive and move it back into the bay. There are four more USB ports in the back, along with one eSATA port and a gigabyte LAN interface. You can back up the whole server by inserting a portable hard drive into the front USB port and touching one button.

The server is launched by Intel’s Atom 230 CPU which is outfitted with 512KB of L2 cache. This chip has a deep clock speed of 1.6GHz and a front side bus speed of 533MHz. Atom processors draw very little electrical power and move very cool the Atom 230 has a thermal graphical profile of just four watts as Intel ostensibly drawn them for mobile PCs that currently move on batteries and have little place for controlling heat.

We counted the server’s power consequent using a Kill-a-Watt power meter which said the server making just 45 watts at idle which was about 120 watts less than the home-grown Windows Home Server machine we utilized for our benchmark comparisons. And since the Acer doesn’t wants a lot of fans to keep it cool it worked in near silence.