Belinea has started selling its first Windows Home Server just days after
Fujitsu Siemens did the same.
Belinea’s O.center is the first WHS not to come in a dark chassis, instead
using a white and orange colour scheme. It uses an AMD Sempron LE-1100 processor
running at 1.6GHz, with 512MB DDR2 Ram and a 500GB hard drive for €549 (about
£420 – UK pricing yet to be confirmed).
Fujitsu Siemens’ Scaleo Home Server 1500 is its new entry-level £399 (inc.
Vat) WHS, with a 500GB hard drive and an Intel Celeron processor.
Both devices can hold up to four Sata hard disks, while Fujitsu Siemens also
fits 256MB flash memory, possibly to hold firmware, although that isn’t clear
yet.
Belinea and Fujitsu Siemens join a slim line-up of devices sold with
Microsoft’s Windows Home Server operating system. We’ve posted
reviews of Tranquil’s WHS and
one from HP - the latter of which
resembles the 32cm-high o.center in stature.
Fujitsu Siemens' offering is more than twice the width of any other WHS
device.
Medion’s Home Server was on display at Cebit but UK product manager Rick
Munday said it would not sell the device until Microsoft fixed a data corruption
flaw that can in rare circumstances scramble files.
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