Acer Aspire AH340-UA230N Home Server Product Description

Designed for households and home-based businesses with multiple PCs, the Acer Aspire EasyStore home server (model AH340-UA230N) offers a simple way to network home computers, centralize, share and protect digital data as well as access it remotely from anywhere in the world. The EasyStore AH340 comes with a 1 TB hard drive, but it also includes three additional hot-swappable hard drive bays that enable expansion up to 7 TB--providing more than enough room for filing, storing and backing up a vast library of songs, videos, photos, games and documents.

Spec Check Intel Atom Processor 230 Microsoft Windows Home Server 1 TB Hard Drive 2 GB DDR2 Memory 3 hot swappable hard drive bays 5 USB 2.0 Ports 1 eSATA Port Gigabit Ethernet

The Acer Aspire EasyStore AH340 home server offers a compact footprint and stylish blue LED status lights

It includes three hot-swappable hard drive bays with simple, easy access to the drives

Offering a compact footprint of just 7.8 x 7.1 inches, the EasyStore AH340 is both stylishly and functionally designed with a piano black bezel that's complemented soft blue LED status lights. It's powered by an Intel Atom processor 230, and it features 2 GB DDR2 memory, 10/100/1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet, one eSATA port, and five USB 2.0 ports. The one-touch USB copy function enables quick file uploading--just plug in a USB device, push the button on the EasyStore AH340, and the data is automatically sorted and stored by file type into designated folders.

The Microsoft Windows Home Server operating system centralizes digital media in one location, making it easy to access files, photos, videos and music from any PC on your network. It also protects critical data by creating an image-based backup of every home computer every day, so you can restore a single file or an entire PC. With Windows Home Server, users can access the home network from the office or the road, for full access to their files and applications, just as if they were sitting in front of their home PC.

The hot swappable HDD cage enables you to increase your data storage by adding up to three 3.5-inch internal hard drives--allowing you to max out your storage capabilities at an amazing 7 TB (yes, that's terabytes). The cage is outfitted with release levers for each drive to keep them secure. In addition, a recovery/reset pinhole provides additional data protection by enabling system restores and data recoveries with just one-touch.

The server works with DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) 1.5 Certified Home Server (DMS) and digital media player (DMP) to enable music playback as well as photo and video viewing on a TV. For internet security, the EasyStore AH340 comes with a 60-day free trial of McAfee Internet Security Suite 2008.

24/7 Global Access to Your Data
The Aspire easyStore offers a variety of networking benefits inside the home as well as remotely. For example, parents can access their children's homework while traveling for business. They can also upload videos and photos from sports events or summer vacations to the server, even while away from home. At any time, from anywhere, every family member with a PC in the home network can access photos, videos, music and other documents from the home server.

This centralization of digital data saves significant time by eliminating the need to transfer data from one PC to another, every time someone wants a photo, video or other document that's stored on another PC. It's also a safeguard. If a netbook or notebook is damaged, lost or stolen, users don't lose their data along with it, since it's backed up at home. In addition, when a new system is added to the network, it's quick and easy to upload data from the computer to the server.

Product Description
The Acer Aspire Home Server creates an easy and reliable way to store, access and share files, as well as back up home PCs. Some of the key specifications are as follows: 1. The sever is small and stylish with a trendy, contemporary black color. 2. Blue LED’s enhance overall design 3. Reliable protection which includes "Headless Design", Recovery/reset pinhole, McAfee® Total Protection™ Service, Smart file backup and recovery, Incremental PC system backup and recovery, 4. Convenient expandability which includes Up to 4 hot-swappable SATA HDD bays, USB 2.0 and e-SATA drive addition, Windows® Home Server Drive Extender, DNLA media sharing, One-touch USB copy, Windows® Home Server community free web hosting service 5. 24/7 performance which includes, Intel® Atom™ Processor 230, Windows® Home Server, Lights out