We Got Served – Windows Home Server & Your Digital Home

With today’s announcement of Shuttle launching two new Windows Home Servers here at CES, I headed over to Shuttle’s booth at the show to check them out. They didn’t have the final (WHS logo-compliant) hardware on show at the booth, so you’ll see a few extra ports on the back and on the SH-K4800 the DVD drive you see here is replaced with a hot swappable hard drive bay. These photos below are of the barebones chassis – the home server editions will be very similar.

SH-K4500

SH-K4800

Shuttle have now released full details of both home servers on their website.

SH-K4500 Specification

OPERATING SYSTEM
Windows® Home Server
PROCESSOR
Intel® Celeron®
Intel® Core™2 Duo (Optional)

MEMORY
1GB
2GB (Optional)
Supports up to 4GB

CHIPSET
North Bridge: Intel 945GC
South Bridge: ICH7

GRAPHICS
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950
(1) VGA Output

AUDIO
5.1 Channel High Definition Audio

INTERNET
10MB/s,100MB/s,1GB/s
Wireless Ethernet (Optional)

STORAGE

500GB Hard Drive
750GB Hard Drive (Optional)
1TB Hard Drive (Optional)
Supports up to 2 Hard Drives

POWER
100W Flex PSU

NETWORK
Gigabit LAN

BACK PANEL
(1) PCI slot
(1) PS/2 keyboard
(1) PS/2 Mouse
(1) Gigabit LAN port
(1) Serial port
(1) D-sub port
(4) USB 2.0 ports
(1) Front out connector
(1) Rear Surround out connector
(1) Center / Bass connector
(1) Printer port
(1) Wireless port perforation
(1) PS/2 keyboard
(1) PS/2 Mouse
(1) Gigabit LAN port
(1) Serial port
(1) VGA Output
(1) D-sub port
(4) USB 2.0 ports
(1) Front out connector
(1) Rear Surround out connector
(1) Center / Bass connector
(1) Wireless port perforation

DIMENSIONS
11(L)x7.5(W)x6.7(H) Inch

SH-K4800 Specification

PROCESSOR
Intel® Celeron®
Intel® Core™2 Duo (Optional)

MEMORY
1GB
2GB (Optional)
Supports up to 4GB

CHIPSET
North Bridge: Intel 945GC
South Bridge: ICH7

GRAPHICS
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950
(1) VGA Output
(1) DVI Output

AUDIO

5.1 Channel High Definition Audio

INTERNET
10MB/s,100MB/s,1GB/s
Wireless Ethernet (Optional)

STORAGE

500GB Hard Drive
750GB Hard Drive (Optional)
1TB Hard Drive (Optional)
5.25” Removable Internal Hot Swappable Hard Drive Enclosure(Optional)

COOLING
Intel Stock Cooling

POWER

100W Flex PSU

BACK PANEL
(1) PCI slot
(1) PS/2 keyboard
(1) PS/2 Mouse
(1) Gigabit LAN port
(1) Serial port
(1) D-sub port
(4) USB 2.0 ports
(1) Front out connector
(1) Rear Surround out connector
(1) Center / Bass connector
(1) Printer port
(1) Wireless port perforation
(1) PS/2 keyboard
(1) PS/2 Mouse
(1) Gigabit LAN port
(1) Serial port
(1) VGA Output
(1) D-sub port
(4) USB 2.0 ports
(1) Front out connector
(1) Rear Surround out connector
(1) Center / Bass connector
(1) Wireless port perforation

DIMENSIONS
11(L)x7.5(W)x6.7(H) Inch

11.6(L)x7.3(W)x7.9(H) Inch

WARRANTY
1 Year Limited Hardware Warranty

I’m guessing that some of those ports listed will actually not be available on the final hardware due to Windows Home Server’s logo requirements (e.g. the audio and display ports etc)

Both units will come with a 500Gb hard drive in the base specification, but as you can see, there are a lot of upgrade options. Both chassis can take 2 internal hard drives, but the SH-K4800 will have the option of a third hot swappable drive if you need the extra storage.

We’ve seen a lot of enthusiasts building great home servers with barebones Shuttle hardware, so it’s great to see them now offering fully built home server systems too.

The SH-K4500 will start at $449 with the SH-K4800 starting at $499.

Look out for a review of both systems in the coming weeks.