VIA ARTiGO A2000

Functionality

Windows Server 2008, ran surprisingly well on the VIA ARTiGO A2000 despite the fact that it was not listed as one of the compatible systems on VIA’s web site. Other compatible systems include:

Windows Vista
Windows XP
Ubuntu 8.04
SUSE Enterprise Desktop Server 10.0

All of the drivers were immediately recognized by Windows 2008 so there was no need to use the driver CD provided. Even with 512 MB of RAM the VIA ARTiGO A2000 was able to run Windows without a problem. It was also able to seamlessly interact with Windows Server 2008 and be used as file server, act as a host for a VLAN and an ftp server.

Bundled Software

StrongBox 4.0

One of the major and often overlooked problems in home servers is data security. Since home movies, pictures and multimedia are things that are generally accessed on a day to day basis, one tends to make the “accessing” process as easy and simple as possible thereby throwing any kind of security out of the window. Well consider this, the same drive that those pictures are stored at could also be the storing place for the credit card and other type of sensitive information that you wouldn’t want people accessing. StrongBox 4.0 by VIA is a securing program that takes advantage of the Via’s Pad Lock cryptographic engine to create a virtual drive secured by a 256 bit AES encryption. The Drive can be locked and unlocked by right clicking the virtual drive and selecting the appropriate option. This makes the drive secure while also giving the user the desired ease of use.

TruDelete

If you have skeletons in you your closet, or in this case, in your hard drive that you want to have permanently deleted, TruDelete is a free program that will do just that for you. It is also quite simple to use. Select the partition you want wiped and press the right arrow. After you have included everything you want gone, hitting the button “Wipe” will destroy the data on the partition. If you are asking yourselves just how the TruDelete guarantees to wipe the data. The software uses random number generator (RGB) to destroy data. This operation is further smoothed out by A2000 C7’s stand alone cryptographic engine since it does not strain the main processor.

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