Photos of TS Mini’s Guts

by admin on December 19, 2009


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I posted the first review of this device on Newegg.com. Reading more recent reviews, a Mr. N/A (aka Internet Tuff Guy) impolitely informed me that I was wrong about the RAM being soldered on. Hey, I made a mistake. I wanted to be sure, though, as I could have sworn I saw a mem chip on the topside of the mainboard.  So, I powered down the server and opened her up.
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Which model and how much did you pay?

by admin on December 5, 2009

I paid $239 +tax at Newegg for the 500GB model. It was very early Black Friday, just after Newegg sent the E-mail subscribers the official sale announcement. Later in the day, I noticed they had raised the price to $299! Wow! I got lucky.

Perhaps they noticed that Amazon.com wasn’t budging. AMZN kept the price at $299 all day BF and ever since.

In addition to the server, I purchased 2 one-terabyte Western Digital Caviar Green hard drives. One is installed in the server and one is connected via eSATA. I paid $69.99 each, no tax, and free two-day shipping. As of Sunday, Dec. 5th, they are $89.99 each. Lucky again! (I should buy a Lotto ticket).

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Device Manager

December 4, 2009

Note the Marvell RAID controller.

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Here’s the Manual

December 4, 2009

Several people have been asking for a copy of the manual. Here I’ve loaded the PDF version that is included on one of the CDs that comes with the server.
We hope you find it useful.
ASUS TS mini SOHO Home Server Manual [PDF]

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Welcome!

December 3, 2009

Welcome to www.tsmini.info. We are in no way associated with ASUStek  but we hope that they will allow us to share with you everything there  is to know about the ASUS TS mini SOHO Home Server. If you’re like us,  you’re finding very little literature about this little server aside  from recycled press releases.
We aim [...]

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