The Aleutia F5 – 2TB Windows Home Server That Fits in Your Hand

15 February 2009 in Mini PC, windows home server by michael | 3 comments

Our fanless F5 will be released for sale online at the end of the month and boasts a 1.5GHz Via Eden Ultra Low Voltage CPU and 1GB of RAM. It has a 12V DC input and has a thick solid aluminium case that is unbreakable. We’ll be releasing two seperate cases – one that can take a 2.5″ drive and one that can take a 3.5″ drive (pictured). Since it has a SATA-I controller, the smaller one can use ultra high-speed SSDs from OCZ and Patriot to serve as a rugged, stand-alone PC with no moving parts that runs Vista, Windows 7, or Linux.

But what’s really exciting about the F5 is that with space for a 3.5″ desktop drive it can serve as a Windows Home Server that is tiny compared to options from HP, Fujitsu, or even Tranquil PC. Western Digital’s Caviar Green drives are now available in 2TB size, though at an early adopter price.

However, we’ll be offering the system equipped with a 1TB WD drive for only $499 ($395 without any drive). Power consumption comes in at just 17 Watts, compared to 40W for a Mac Mini (that only goes up to 160GB storage and has a fan).

The 2.5″ system will be $375 and $449 with a 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache drive running Ubuntu 8.10.

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  2. sam’s avatar

    sam on 2 March 2009 at 12:57 am

    I think you maybe made a bad decison on the model line up. The idea of using 2.5″ drives is great, as they are more quiet and consume less power.

    But you should have made the 2.5″ model big enough to take TWO of those size drives eg 2×500GB 2.5″ drives.

    Then you would be selling ultra-quiet servers that had pretty much no compromise on sound AND almost no compromise on space. And that is sweet spot for opening peoples pockets.

    Tranquil is already pretty close but their drives are too small. They too are missing the point.

    You’d probablye end up selling MORE of those than the 3.5″ type. Anyone who wants those can find them lost of places.

  3. Dennis’s avatar

    Dennis on 31 March 2009 at 10:09 pm

    Looks great. Almost got it right. I agree with the comment above.
    To add another minor criticism, I’d dispose of all the legacy connections myself and add a few more usb connections. PS/2 and VGA are really on their way out.