LaCie Announce LaCie 5big Office Server with WHS 2011

LaCie announced today an update to it’s 5big server range in the form of the 5big Officer Server running Windows Home Server 2011 – yes, WHS 2011!

This is how LaCie describe the 5big Office:

Total protection for your data. Easy collaboration for your business. Solid investment for your company. The LaCie 5big Office brings professional backup to your small office in record time. It features the industry-trusted Windows Home Server 2011 and a powerful 1.6GHz Intel® 64-bit Atom™ processor. It provides full data protection, superior data sharing for your office and offsite parters, easy integration, and low maintenance.

Here are the specs:

And the cost? Well its $599.00 for a 2TB version. While that’s not a bad price, given it’s only a 1.6GHz Atom processor, and the current cost of a WHS 2011 licence is peanuts, I can imagine there may not be a line of people waiting to buy one.

That said however, this is the first OEM to actually really a WHS 2011 box, and also the first company to release a box in the US (we seem to have quite a few companies in the UK releasing though).

Are you going to buy the LaCie 5big Office server?