I was looking for a recommendation for a replacement to my noisy (linux) server, my requirements:
- super quiet, hardly know it's on
- small, don't need monitor, keyboard, mouse, have all that if needed
- reasonably priced
- run squeezebox server
- use it as a print server so all machines in the house could print
some forum advice recommended an Acer Aspire easystore H340. Jumping on to the Acer website and looking for online dealers I found what I thought was the recommended machine. I bought it impulsively without enough research.
There was no information about connecting to it by remote desktop / installing software and the firmware was over 2 years old so I started looking at the Acer site and posted some support tickets. I was blown away to get some strange responses including:
I had left it a few days after getting the package to open it and after the first day of playing with it I got in touch with the supplier, cclonline who told me since it was 8 days since it was shipped and I had only 7 days to return, that I was out of luck.
A week later I finally realised ,after talking with cclonline support, that I had not bought what I thought and it was a NAS box which did not have Windows Home Server running but en embedded Linux system. cclonline agreed to take it back for a restocking charge of 10%. The killer was the brutal Irish postal system as it cost me €47 to return (€42 with no insurance).
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