[geeks] Interesting small NAS chassis from Intel

[Lionel Peterson]

Hello all,

Came across this, thought some might be interested: Intel ss4200-EHW [0] server chassis with 4 SATA II bays, Celeron 420 CPU, 512 Meg RAM, Gigabit Ethernet, and 4x USB 2.0 ports. Price appears to be around $425, but I can't find it in-stock anywhere (several places have it for special order).

It isn't the cheapest solution, but to be honest, it isn't that bad (if you just want something that will work) - not sure if Solaris will run on it (it should), but Intel is pushing it for things like Windows Home Server[1] and more mainstream server applications.

Lionel

[0] http://www.intel.com/design/servers/storage/ss4200-EHW/ss4200EHW.pdf

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx