The Tranquil PC SQA-5H home server drops today. Aside from coming with two or three friendly IT guys, this unit seems to have it all. The SQA-5H server has five hot-swappable drive bays, a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom 330 processor and 1 GB of ram that can be upgraded to 2 GB. It also comes with a quick system backup for transferring your stored data onto an external HDD. Oh yeah, there’s also a "Mode" button for quick capacity checks and an optional SQA-EX slave unit for an extra five bays of swappable fun. Phew. It doesn’t do your taxes for you though. Nothing in this world is perfect.

Word is, pricing will come out later today on their website. I’m going to buy one hundred and build an igloo to sleep inside of. The gentle hum of swappable bays just can’t be beat.

Four SATA bays is better than two, I’d say, and so the Lanner NS04-3100 already has something over the QNAP TS-209 reviewed earlier (and, they even share the same hokey naming schemes). And, it looks like it will compete fairly well on features, as well, with Wi-Fi, iTunes server, UPnP AV media server, DLNA, and support for all meaningful RAID configurations and JBOD. Looks like the NAS server market is becoming enticingly competitive. Pricing and availability information is pending.

Okay, maybe not just for me, but since I’m a SOHO kind of guy, the QNAP TS-209 NAS server sure fits the bill. Sporting two hot-swappable bays, a 500MHz processor, 128MB of DDR2 RAM cache,  gigabit Ethernet, and up to 2TB of storage. And that’s just the hardware. Check out the server capabilities:

• File server
• FTP server
• Backup server
• RAID-1 Mirroring with Hot-swap design
• Remote Replication
• Web server
• MySQL server
• Printer server
• UPnP Media server
• Photo Sharing
• Download Station
• iTunes server
• Cross-platform support
• Scads of security

Coming soon for probably a fair amount of cash.