Tranquil's T7-HSA shipping with Windows Home Server

It's been quite some time since we've heard any noise from Tranquil, but apparently, the firm's T7-HSA server is finally shipping. Notably, these wee machines not only utilize an energy-efficient, fanless design, but it arrives at your door with Windows Home Server under the hood. Granted, you won't be encoding any movie clips or recording 16 tracks of simultaneous audio with the modest 1.5GHz CPU, but it should handle basic media serving / home automation tasks just fine. Nevertheless, those interested can get their orders in now starting at £338 ($686), and you shouldn't have to wait long before having it in your hands.

[Wesburl @ Sep 12th 2007 5:22PM]

Can I store my torrents on this "media server"?

[insertAlias @ Sep 12th 2007 5:24PM]

Neat...I've been looking for something like this for a while now

[anonymous @ Sep 12th 2007 5:26PM]

If I didn't already have a half dozen computers in my house, I'd probably get one of these.

[David Clark @ Sep 12th 2007 5:30PM]

I think I'll wait for the HP. Lower price + bigger muscle = Better Buy

[WHSuser @ Sep 12th 2007 5:46PM]

I have to agree - possibly a good choice - but I'm not prepared to wait until 2008, and then I'm keen to save power (as well as my data) the Tranquil is a miser at just over 20W - can't be true ?

[Patrick @ Sep 12th 2007 6:58PM]

Pricey but very nice

[Greg Poole @ Sep 12th 2007 11:37PM]

I can see how this would be good for a lot of people who just want to plug it in and don't have many requirements, but one of the things I've learned from my encounters with MS Media Center is that while the product may look slick, it's pretty much always going to work as it did out of the box without some severe hacking. I still believe that anyone looking at serious home automation, media or torrent serving would probably be better served setting up their own vanilla box and customising it as required, whether through linux and open source or windows and whatever else you have.