Simple PC goes Green with Home Server
Last week I built the first Green Simple Cube Home Server, its not a trick statement, the Cube wasn’t green in colour, but a low energy consumer.
Using a small Shuttle case which is driveless and configurable with 2 hard drive bays, the standard config with 2x 250gb hard drives and the maximum config with 2x 750gb hard drives, using 1gb Ram and a Intel 1.8Ghz Celeron processor and most importantly a 100w power supply, consuming up to 1/3 less energy and cutting your energy bill at the same time!
Dr Elliott took delivery of the first Green unit and after some tweaking with his router we were happily up and running. A week after delivery I spoke with Dr Elliott who is very pleased with his purchase, originally we set his desktop and laptop PC’s to back up to the server, he was pleased to see the reminder to back up the laptop as he hadn’t had the machine switched on for a few days, he has also added a third PC to the backup process.
The Home Server is configured to backup each connected PC each night as long as the PC is switched on, if after 5 days it hasn’t been able to initiate a backup it will prompt you to do so by displaying a message on all the connected, switched on machines. It will also alert you in the same manner to any of the PC’s with missing Windows updates or out of date antivirus. If you have a household with multiple PC’s then this is a great solution to protect all your important data. It also acts as a central storage system where you can share files across the household PC’s and multimedia connected devices.
Here’s the new Simple Cube banner, let me know what you think of the design? 
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