If you’re one of those people who relies heavily on networked equipment at home (desktops, laptops, consoles, net-connected appliances such as set-top boxes and HDTVs), Asus was thinking of you when they introduced this kit, a consumer-level server called the Home Server TS mini, to give you a centralized place to dump and retrieve the data across different devices.
It might look like a simple network-attached storage box, but comes with a little bit more brains than the average NAS kit. Of course, its primary function involves acting as a centralized storage drive, but it also comes with an Intel Atom processor, 2GBs of memory, and a Windows Home Server platform for doing “smarter” tasks.
It can do automated backups of up to ten computers daily (as well as perform file restoration), and serves up multimedia content across various devices within the house, or from out of town with the Remote Access feature. This makes it somewhat worthwhile: using your WindowsLive account, you can access the TS mini and whatever’s stored in it to load up a movie that you can watch when you’re away (as long as you have an internet connection, of course).
The TS mini comes with up to 4TBs of internal storage (via its two drive bays), plus 500GBs of online storage. It also sports a Gigabit Ethernet connection, six USB ports, and two eSATA ports for expanding the storage capacity.
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