Intel: Home Server does not adopt Microsoft Solutions

We have probably seen AMD or WIndows Home Server hardware products produced by VIA. Intel has decided to release its own consumption-level network attached storage Server, which is a Windows Home Server similar product consisting of Intel sayang processors.

The new SS4200x Server will have two specifications: hardware without pre-installed systems, and a complete system equipped with EMC-designed Linux Server software.

Among them, the SS4200-E model for EMC Design server software products, this product will correspond to the consumer-level network additional storage market, for different clients to provide streaming media format file playback support. Supports Mac, Windows, and Xbox 360 .....)

Intel has long provided network storage products for enterprises and small enterprises, but SS4200x indicates that Intel is crowding the Windows Home Server market. We can see that Microsoft has recently released a new Windows Home Server product to serve as a real Home media center. Its killer is Windows file backup, Windows desktop integration, and media services. However, Intel does not use Microsoft's solutions.

"From the storage business perspective, we are still a chip vendor," said Seth Bobroff, marketing director of Intel's storage division ", intel's ultimate goal is to bring x86 processors to more types of markets. Therefore, SS4200x has become a good explanation without using Microsoft products, in order to allow SS4200x to take advantage of the market at a low cost.

At present, SS4200x hardware configuration is, Intel saiyang 400 series processor uses conroe core, 2.0GHz frequency), MHz Front-End bus, motherboard uses Intel 945GZ chipset, and ICH7-R combination. This combination is obviously a product of the current low-cost PC market, and Intel also applied this combination to the new UMPC product.

Intel's enterprise-level storage products currently use Intel Xeon processors, while SS4400 is a low-end product for small businesses, but based on Xscale processors. The SS4200 introduced the x86 low-end saiyang product to the storage server market, which seems to be Intel's first attempt.

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