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Tranquil PC SQA-5H Series 2 review

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Tranquil PC SQA-5H Series 2

Verdict

A serious enterprise-class home server, but it comes with an equally serious price

Review Date: 26 Jan 2010

Reviewed By: Darien Graham-Smith

Price when reviewed: £419 (£492 inc VAT)

Overall Rating
5 stars out of 6

Features & Design
6 stars out of 6

Value for Money
3 stars out of 6

Performance
6 stars out of 6

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User comments

Is it expensive?

When you compare with what you can get in the form of a basic NAS yes but this is a little more than that. Add another disk and you have data redundancy, automated backup of up to 10 clients and the ability to add some of the Windows server roles. Ideal for a small business workgroup

By MIssingLink on 28 Jan 2010

Not That expensive for what you get

Somewhat disparaging review. If you "get" WHS then the Tranquils offer a very comprehensive customised set-up which is simply switch-on and go.

The capacity of 10TB seems excessive, but if you've got a big Media collection its easy to fill up! (believe me).

Not a 'status symbol' but a useful piece of kit that provides both storage and also bare-metal restore for your home PCs.

By wittgenfrog on 28 Jan 2010

are you really thinking of buying Tranquil?

I bought a Tranquil Media Centre; it went in for repair in MARCH 2010 and it's still there to this day. I'm not thinking of buying another Tranquil product - are you?

By pbateman1010 on 22 Oct 2010

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