Silverstone Technology Silverstone Cs01-Hs Premium Mini-Itx Nas Case With All Aluminum Exterior And Six 2.5" Hot-Swap Bays In Black, Sst-Cs01B-Hs

First, the good bits. The case looks really good, and I like that I can close the front panel, and the option to add 8 disk is really amazing. There aren't that many chassis for self-builds out there.When the chassis is in operation, I get some audible noise fan. My previous NAS was more quiet, so I can't give this one full marks for the noise.When assembling the chassis, then the metal construction feels a bit thin and on the cheap side. Definitely watch out not to cut your fingers on some sharp edges when mounting the chassis. One major negative point is that there is extremely little space between the panel where the SATA cables plug in and the power supply, of you go for a standard SFX power supply. You'd have to buy SATA cables with L-shaped connectors, and even then there is very little space.Other than the space and noise problem, the chassis has been working fine for months now. So as long as I don't have to open it again, I'm happy with it.

Really had to search for this case. It seems that all the gamers only care about lights and bells... If your a real IT admin your always looking for a box that you can hot swap drives, setup a software raid on and support as many drives as possible without needing to purchase an expensive network storage appliance. I can only assume the computer market is presently being pushed by the short visioned gamers which is really hurting developing decent cases like this. Love the product works perfectly for me. I've packed it totally with disks and don't have any heat issues. Then again, I'm no gamer, so I don't have a GPU card for COD and nor am I bit coin mining....

The case looks nice, but the quality is poor. Plastic parts on the trays and exposed capacitors on the backplane. Secondly, it is impossible to plug in all the sata backplane regardless of the power supply. I even purchased the recommend Silverstone power supply for this case. Simply a nice idea, but poor design and quality. Do not buy

Let me start off by saying what a pleasant surprise to receive this just before Christmas! Yes, that has nothing to do with the product itself, but, the original estimated delivery date was well after Christmas.About the case, I was less enthusiastic with the steel composition because it felt rather light and flimsy. As well, I would have preferred if they designed the USB ports to work both with individual USB connectors or a dual USB 19-pin connector. That would have made it much more flexible as opposed to either a dual USB 3.0 connection or nothing. They should have also made the drive sleds work without screws. This way it's more efficient changing drives plus you don't need to worry about misplacing or storing the screws. With all that said, you really need to consider the price relative to what you get, and I'd say in that regards, it was well worth it. I couldn't find another case that accommodates 8 hotswap drives for this price so yes, they definitely cut corners. At the same time, SilverStone certainly designed it quite well with what they had to work with.I migrated all components from my existing server to this new case because of the ease that hotswap provides. Now that I've done this, if I were to do it again, the only thing I'd do differently is attach the SATA cables for the extra 5.25" drive bays before installing the motherboard. The reason is because my motherboard's SATA ports are all located directly behind the hotswap backplane, only leaving about 2 centimeters between. As a result, connecting the SATA cables became a struggle since I was not willing to disassemble everything to take the motherboard out.If you've had experience in a commercial environment, set your expectations proportionately as this is not designed for that. It has many of the features but costs had to be cut in order to target the home environment. I would certainly buy it again and would recommend this case to others.2019-01-04: After doing some more research on this case, I found a review which was very useful. I did not do everything he suggested, but, just through the use of duct tape, I was able to drop the temperature of all my drives by minimum 2 degrees Celsius each! There's definitely room for case improvements and it's fairly simple yet effective. I can't link to the other review but Google "dmacias unraid Silverstone CS380" and it should be the first result.

Tour renfermée qui conserve et accumule la chaleur, mauvaise aération, pas assez d'ouverture et si vous avez une carte vidéo avec 3-4 disques dur , ca va surchauffé. J'avais 8 disque dur et une mini carte vidéo comme serveur, le boitier était super chaud.