Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 Home Server

The Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 is a good product for small businesses or homes that don't do a lot of media streaming.

Features are stable. Hardware runs quiet. Sturdy construction. Utility makes mapping drive letters a breeze

Power savings feature is too complex for average users. Uses low-end processor

One sure sign that Windows Home Server has gone mainstream: You can buy Lenovo's IdeaCentre D400 at Walmart. The D400 is remarkably similar in looks and features to Acer's Aspire easyStore, which you'll also find on the big-box retailer's website (yes,...

Hot-swappable drive bays; one-touch USB backup; handy mapping software for client PCs

Single-core Atom; only 1GB RAM; lacks a DLNA-certified media server

The WHS add-in universe has grown tremendously since the OS was first shipped, but that doesn’t lessen our disappointment in Lenovo’s slim collection of bundled apps. Of the apps it offers, we like the nifty utility that augments the Windows Home...

With the mass of media files most of us are collecting across various computers, it's getting more important to find a way to not only preserve that repository, but to also make it consumable on just about anything, including computers and home...

With digital video distribution, movie download services, music collections, digital photos, software backups and the thousands of documents and other files most of us wish to protect, a $500 (D400 starting price) is a reasonable investment for a...