Microsoft Ch 9 – A super small file server

Channel 9 on Microsoft MSDN has a cute Video about building a WinCE 5.0 NAS device. It uses a ICOP eBox-II which is about US$180 – and looks REALLY cute. All the advantages of an embedded windows box – but without the power consumption and the like.

A lot of the details are on the video – a real developers box. Uses a laptop HDD, but I imagine that a larger HDD would not be too hard either. The image is about 2.7 MBytes, and is really configurable. The device has audio, ethernet, serial, video and paralell. It has a Windows CE Remote Management interfaces using HTTP.