Acer EasyStore H340
The Acer EasyStore H340 was a home NAS sold by Acer during the Windows Home Server era. Much like its "cousin" the HP MediaSmart EX495 it came pre-loaded with Windows Home Server 2007
By default this device would come with 4x 1TB SATA 3.5" hard disks installed. The top most drive includes a warning label explaining that the operating system is installed on it and to be careful with removing or replacing the drive.
The machine originally shipped with an extremely anemic Intel Atom 230 CPU and 2GB of DDR2 memory as standard to compliment the storage. It also contains a single PCI-E slot for (small!) expansion cards.
Unfortunately my H340 suffered significant damage in shipping as the device was *extremely* poorly packaged. As a result the internals of the machine have been completely replaced.
At this time the machine has an ASUS AT4NM10T-I ITX motherboard installed. This board features an Atom D525 chip and can support up to 8GB of SODIMM (laptop) memory. This chip is roughly comparable to two Atom 230's "glued" together and is extremely unreliable in operation. Despite having 4 SATA ports, only two ports operate at SATA 3 (6Gbps) speeds, the other two are SATA 2 (3Gbps) ports. Ethernet is handled by an onboard gigabit Realtek chip as standard
During a stream in 2023 I was able to get this machine to run Windows Server 2000 successfully. This proved quite stable and extremely performant over the newer Server 2003 R2 x64. This unit may be repurposed in future to run services atop that operating system version.
