Tranquil PC are back with yet another new, small footprint, multi-purpose chassis. The T3N is an Intel Atom N270 based PC, with a super low-power footprint, matched only by its small size and low noise output.
At just 13W power consumption and 17dB noise output (and that’s just the hard drive – the PC itself is completely silent), the new model can serve as a great single-drive home server, media center, even a low-power desktop PC!
You have the choice of fitting a 3.5″ or 2.5″ drive, so you could max the T3N out with a 2Tb drive, and 2Gb RAM to pack a real punch, and with a choice of chassis in Blue, Pink or the more conventional Black you can add a splash of colour into the room.
Connectivity options are reasonable, given the small foootprint, with 3 USB drives for additional storage and Gigabit Ethernet on board.
Full specs:
Unit dimension 210 (d) x 65 (h) x 240 (w)
Unit construction ABS outer shell, with SEC inner chassis
CPU 32 bit Intel Atom N270 (1 x 1.6GHz / 512KB L2 cache) with speed step – 533MHz FSB
Chipset Intel 82945GSE Northbridge + ICH7M Southbridge
Graphics Intel Extreme (GMA950)
Memory 1x DDR SO-DIMM 533/667MHz (up to 2GB) – 200 pin
HDD 1x 3.5″ (Green Power) or 1x 2.5″ SATA HDDs can be fitted
Expansion 1x Mini-PCI Express slot (for WiFi)
Internal expansion 1x SPDIF, 2+2 HD Audio, Front Mic/Headphone, 1x Parallel, 1x PS2, 2x RS232, 4x USB2.0 – LVDS
Colour options Black, Sparkle Blue or Sparkle Pink
Front panel Power switch and Power / HDD activity LEDs
Rear panel 12V DC power in / 3x USB2.0 / 10.100.1000 LAN (incl PXE Support) / Audio Out / VGA / DVI-D
Weight Base unit (nett) 2.1Kg
Power supply 60W External AC/DC included with country specific power cord
Working temp Maximum 40’C ambient
Mounting options Desk
Power consumption from 13W (base unit)
Acoustics 17dBA (incl 1x HDD) or 0dBA without HDD
Software As selected
Base pricing starts at £119 ex VAT with a range of specification options on offer.
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30. June 2009 at 10:08 pm
If you want a small system for use as a server or media center, none of these will beat the ASRock ION 330.
Dual core Atom with ION chipset.
2. July 2009 at 7:53 am
A single hard drive defeats half of the purpose of the Windows Home Server. Kiss your data integrity goodbye.
2. July 2009 at 11:31 am
You dont have data intergity or safety with even 2 or 10 drives. The only way your data is safe is if you have an offsite sync or backup. So 1 drive is perfectly fine.
3. July 2009 at 4:15 pm
Come on, we all know the integrity is many times greater on a WHS with 2+ drives than 1 drive. What do you work for Tranquil?
6. July 2009 at 4:27 am
One drive is NOT perfectly fine. I do, howeverI do agree that an offsite backup is essential too. The only way it would be perfectly fine is you were constantly backing up to the offsite location, which I am sure you are not, unless for a small number of files to the cloud. I use duplication for mainly photos and important docs and email, its a great feature that is useless for single drives.
2. July 2009 at 11:51 am
The suggested solution, from Tranquil, is the use of the single HDD base unit, with either the use of an external USB HDD, or the Offsite Tranquil WHS backup solution ( http://tinyurl.com/n3pseh ) or both.
5. August 2009 at 1:30 pm
Get other commentators point about data integrity, however, this would probably make a great little file server for the home user. I think I’ll get one.
5. August 2009 at 1:35 pm
Of course I’d use a GNU/Linux or *BSD and not WHS!