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Hey check it out Acer sent me the Ace 340 Network Attached Server,
and we're going to take a look at it today so stay tuned. Be right back.
Alright so here she is, it's the H340, from Acer.
A very, very nice four bay, Windows home server based,
network attached storage device,
looks really, really, really nice.
Great performance, I actually tested it,
transferring 100 MB files, and it was getting about 10.5 MB per second of throughput,
so that's very fast, and that's over Gigabit Ethernet.
So it's a very quick network attached server.
It also has included in it, so you don't have to buy it,
a one TB hard drive now, you see here,
this is a one TB, Western Digital green drive,
it's 5400 rpm, supposedly, and has featured eight MB of cache,
so you do already come free, loaded with one TB of storage,
but as you can see, you have space for three more.
Now they said four TB is the maximum,
but in reality if you were to populate those bays with two TB drives,
you'd have eight TB of storage, which in turn you could make a mirror grade array,
and actually have four TB reduntantly backed up,
and that would give you some really good assurance that your media stuff,
your folders, your files, your movies, your pictures,
are not going to go anywhere, they're going to be there,
and that's very important, when you're dealing with high end media stuff like this.
You're backing up your TV shows that you're recording,
your movies, your ripping Blu-rays, and DVDs, you're downloading movies,
you have tons and tons of music,
tons of photos, you're a photographer and you have tons of raw images,
and you need that stuff to be backed up,
and you want it to be backed up redundantly in case of drive failure,
this will do it for you perfectly and very efficiently.
It also has great software included in the box
that will help you do all that.
Including software that lets you pretty much backup
all the computers on your home network,
you could set it up, hey, once a day, image this drive.
Twice a week I want you to take all the images, movies, files and folders
from this machine and copy them over.
You also have very cool one touch USB download.
Which is basically, you can plug in a USB right here.
And actually have it back up pretty much take anything off that USB instantly
with a one button push.
Put it in, and it's going to suck everything off of it,
and put it into the NAS,
so if someone comes over, let's say a flash drive full of movies,
you don't have to plug it in and drag and drop the files,
you literally plug it in, push a button, and it goes.
That's a very interesting feature.
Now let's talk a little about connectivity and how everything works.
This does use UPMP to connect,
to find, you know for the router to find the NAS.
So make sure that your router does support that.
It would be necessary.
If not, there's no way to manually input a static guide piece.
So you've got to make sure that your router supports that.
Some of the older Linksys routers don't do it.
Most of the new ones will do it no problem.
Now it also features DLNA, so you can connect any other peripherals,
media extenders and stuff like that,
if you want to hook it up with other computers,
embeddable devices, you can also use it to connect with
your XBOX 360, or your PS3,
or whatever other console you may use that also has internet connectivity.
That's a good feature.
It also features an iTunes server,
so if you want to host an iTunes server on here,
you can put all your music on here,
and access it from any computer on your home network,
or of course you can always access all this stuff through the web.
Which is to me, one of the best parts.
I can listen to my music at home,
you know through my house, but from anywhere in the world.
I can look at my videos,
if I want to show somebody a photo that I took,
I don't have to carry it with me on my hard drive,
on my netbook or on my laptop,
I can literally just have the stuff that's important to me then, there,
I can stream that all off the web,
and all I need is an internet connection. You can watch movies,
if you have a fast internet connection,
you can even stream an HD movie, through there,
as long as you have fast enough upload speeds to get it up to the web fast enough,
and then download speeds to get it off the other end.
So that's really cool as far as that goes.
There is a couple other things I want to show you.
Look at these lights right up here.
These are obviously going to be your status indicator lights,
they will light up red, if you have an unformatted or unworking drive,
a disabled drive.
And they're blue if you're good to go,
and everything is formatted properly,
and you can record to it or you know write data to it.
Looking at the back over here,
you've got an interesting array of stuff.
You've got to remember, inside this plate right here,
right behind this plate, there are, actually is an atom computer.
It's an Atom N230, it's got two GB of DDR2 memory.
It's all in there, it's got an actual computer in there.
So on the back, you have quite a few things.
Starting off from over here, this is your reset button,
in case anything ever goes wrong you can reset it by throwing a pin in there.
You have an E SATA port,
which is great, it means you can share an extra drive
over the network by plugging it in here,
so if you've already filled up eight TB,
you got another two TB that you need,
you can plug it in here, or you can transfer files off of here.
You also have four USB 2.0 ports,
again those can be used all again for the same thing.
You can do print server sharing,
you can also take files and folders off here,
you can add extra external storage.
Pretty much up to you what you want to do.
And then finally this is your 10, 100, 1,100 Ethernet line,
so you do have Gigabit Ethernet.
And that will provide 1,000 MB per second of throughput.
Right over here is your power,
and then here is a little expansion slot,
I think what's in that board is a PCI,
so maybe you could add something in there but honestly,
I probably wouldn't recommend it.
Maybe, maybe like a TV tuner capture card
if you leave this next to your TV to capture videos straight directly to it.
But to be honest, with Windows Home Server,
I wouldn't mess with it, just in case.
Now if you are a power user
and you're going to replace the operating system with Linux,
and you're going to go crazy
and you want to mess around with this thing,
you can, feel free, if not, the way it come set up is very, very good.
And it works really, really good.
Now, last thing I want to show you guys,
is nothing, because that's absolutely it, I got it all.
Really, really cool product here.
It's the Acer Aspire H340, Network Attached Server,
up to eight TB, you could do Radar Race,
you can check your files, folders, and images from anywhere in the world,
using the web, you can back up to it with its automatic [indiscernible].
Which is really, really intuitive, I might add.
It works very well, it's going to save you a lot of trouble,
and it's going to save you some space on hard drives because it's going to be locally,
everyone gets to share the eight TB of space.
You can say hey my netbook's got eight TB,
as long as it's connected to the internet of course.
Or from the home network.
But, really good stuff.
If you have any other questions on it,
or how to configure it or set it up,
feel free to email me and I'll see you guys next time.
For more information on the
Acer Aspire EasyStore H340 Network Attached Storage Device,
type in A180-3400 into the search engine of any of these major retailers.
For ComputerTV, I'm Albert.