SilverStone Announces the Case Storage Series CS380 Chassis

[btarunr]

Drive bays in mid- and full-tower cases becoming fewer by the days, making room for larger add-on cards and cooling contraptions. SilverStone announced a premium case for those seeking more drive bays, the Case Storage series CS380. This case is ideal for video-editing rigs and home-servers. The star-attraction here is its storage area, which includes two 5.25-inch drive bays, and eight hot-swappable 3.5-inch drive bays with SATA back-planes, which are compatible with 2.5-inch drives. The caddies are shielded by a lockable ABS front-door.

The CS380 is made almost entirely of steel. The motherboard tray serves up space for add-on cards up to 24 cm in length, and CPU coolers up to 14.6 cm in height. Its cooling system includes a pair of 120 mm fans (included) ventilating the drive cage, two 120 mm top exhausts, and a 120 mm exhaust. Front-panel connectivity includes a pair of USB 3.0 ports. The case measures 215.3 mm x 487.5 mm x 426.5 mm (WxDxH). The company didn't reveal pricing.



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[slozomby]

I don't get this. it has a distinct lack of fan mounts ( no top/bottom/side) for the motherboard area. and the airflow for the drive cages would make sense if the other side of the case had vents for the hot air.

as much as I love hotswap drive cases, i'd have to pass on this one.

 

[BoyE]

I really don't get where silverstone is going with this one, this is obliviously for people who build their own pc's but there is no black interior and it looks like something a cheap OEM would have made. I'm disappointed, sry

 

[Joss]

and the airflow for the drive cages would make sense if the other side of the case had vents

yeah, it looks like the opposite side has no openings, if that's the case it's ridiculous, where are the fans supposed to blow the air to?

 

[owen10578]

Wait it has side fan mounts for the drives yet it doesn't have side vents? What? Where is it supposed to draw air from? The 4th dimension?

 

[slozomby]

Wait it has side fan mounts for the drives yet it doesn't have side vents? What? Where is it supposed to draw air from? The 4th dimension?

it has vents on the intake side. just nothing on the exhaust side of the drive cage.

 

[PLAfiller]

I really don't get where silverstone is going with this one, this is obliviously for people who build their own pc's but there is no black interior and it looks like something a cheap OEM would have made. I'm disappointed, sry

It is "storage series" . You slap in your 10 HDD's and throw it in da basement. You don't exactly change the hardware of your storage RIG everyday, neither you show it to your friends. I think you can go without black interior for a storage RIG.

 

[wotevajjjj]

I don't get the layout of this case at all.. Video editing rig with only 24cm gpu? No cooling whatsoever?
If they had done it with front intake and side-hotswappable HDDs, there'd been more cooling and space for the gpu.

There's also no OS drive mount inside... Molex power for the drives is SOO 2000 and then there's the overall look of this thing...
I've been looking for a case like this for ages, but every manufacturor seems to get it wrong...

 

[Sp33d Junki3]

I really don't get where silverstone is going with this one, this is obliviously for people who build their own pc's but there is no black interior and it looks like something a cheap OEM would have made. I'm disappointed, sry

First post, is a nice try. disappointed? Cheap? Lesson to learn here, it is a server case made for hot swap drives. Nothing more.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Crap... they should have put solid caps there... not some crappy and actually big electrolytes asking for snapping them off.

 

[Coldzero]

Crap... they should have put solid caps there... not some crappy and actually big electrolytes asking for snapping them off.

This

that and sata connectors...

 

[slozomby]

First post, is a nice try. disappointed? Cheap? Lesson to learn here, it is a server case made for hot swap drives. Nothing more.

its not really a good server case. no exhaust vents for drives. a single 120mm fan port for the motherboard area. and it doesn't take an eatx mb for dual procs.

 

[Assimilator]

Its cooling system includes a pair of 1120 mm fans (included) ventilating the drive cage

Damn son, those some BIIIG fans.

it has vents on the intake side. just nothing on the exhaust side of the drive cage.

You don't know that for certain, since none of these photos show the other side panel.

This

that and sata connectors...

2 Molex power connectors or 8 SATA power connectors. Hmmm, difficult choice.

its not really a good server case. no exhaust vents for drives. a single 120mm fan port for the motherboard area. and it doesn't take an eatx mb for dual procs.

It's a poor server case. It's possibly a great case for people who want to drop in 8 HDDs and an mITX board with an 8-port RAID card.

That said, I have used a case with a similar design that had fans mounted like this and vents on the opposite side panel, and hard drive temperatures were not great. The design of the hot-swap trays (open vs closed), the amount of space between them for air to flow over and through, is vital - but of course Silverstone's photos don't show any of that.

 

[slozomby]

You don't know that for certain, since none of these photos show the other side panel.

I know it for certain.
http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=709&area=en

It's a poor server case. It's possibly a great case for people who want to drop in 8 HDDs and an mITX board with an 8-port RAID card..

there are much much better cases for people who just want to drop an mITX board w/ raid controller and have 8 hotswap drives.

personally I'm looking at the 2 below which support SAS on the backplanes.

or this one

or you get a cheap atx case with lots of 5 1/4 bays and add these: my current method.

or you switch to rackmount cases and silly amounts of hotswap bays and sas backplane.

 

[owen10578]

it has vents on the intake side. just nothing on the exhaust side of the drive cage.

Actually no even the intake side doesn't have the holes lined up with the fans I think those are for you to mount fans on the side panel

 

[Kursah]

I like it TBH, and if the price-point is right, it could be a good home-server case. It appears to have ventilation on the top too...frankly as cool as my home server runs in the basement in the current case...I wouldn't be too worried about temps. Though some folks might need to be cautious until we verify how good airflow is in one of these models.

I'd be tempted to go with what already works well as @slozomby pointed out.

Regardless, not a bad attempt to make it work for Silverstone, trying not too hard to copy the standard server-hot swap bays...though it would be nice if the bays had LED indicators. I do like that about server-grade cases with proper backplanes.

 

[Nordic]

Really guys? You look at this and ask "Where are my enthusiast features? I don't get what this is for?"

This is for home servers and storage solutions. It is not designed to be a gaming PC.

 

[slozomby]

Really guys? You look at this and ask "Where are my enthusiast features? I don't get what this is for?"

This is for home servers and storage solutions. It is not designed to be a gaming PC.

personally i like my servers to have airflow too. xeons get hot. raid controllers get hot. and gpus for compute and virtual workstations get hot.

and i'd consider anyone building a nas in their house to be an enthusiast.

 

[Nordic]

personally i like my servers to have airflow too. xeons get hot. raid controllers get hot. and gpus for compute and virtual workstations get hot.

and i'd consider anyone building a nas in their house to be an enthusiast.

That case has plenty of airflow. 2x120 intake, 1x120 exaust. It is fine at stock. If that is not enough there is potential for another 2x120 exaust.

 

[wolar]

personally i like my servers to have airflow too. xeons get hot. raid controllers get hot. and gpus for compute and virtual workstations get hot.

and i'd consider anyone building a nas in their house to be an enthusiast.

But it has 2x 120mm intake, they are on the side to cool the HDDs better but they are still intake ..

 

[Assimilator]

I know it for certain.
http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=709&area=en
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there are much much better cases for people who just want to drop an mITX board w/ raid controller and have 8 hotswap drives.

personally I'm looking at the 2 below which support SAS on the backplanes.
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or this one
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or you get a cheap atx case with lots of 5 1/4 bays and add these: my current method.
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or you switch to rackmount cases and silly amounts of hotswap bays and sas backplane.
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I guess I should've visited the product page myself, d'oh.

Anyhow I completely agree with you that there are far better and easier ways to get a lot of drives in a hot-swap solution. Problem is, hot-swap tends to be stupidly expensive.

I've gone the same route as you: my retired HAF 932 has six 5.25" bays, 4 of which are currently occupied by IcyDock 5.25"-to-3.5" modules for a total of six 3.5" drives currently. Not hot-swappable, but easy to get access to which is more my priority.

A proper server chassis with hot-swap bays is my dream, but I'd have to pay stupid amounts of money to import one, so... nope.

 

[Coldzero]

Damn son, those some BIIIG fans.



You don't know that for certain, since none of these photos show the other side panel.



2 Molex power connectors or 8 SATA power connectors. Hmmm, difficult choice.



It's a poor server case. It's possibly a great case for people who want to drop in 8 HDDs and an mITX board with an 8-port RAID card.

That said, I have used a case with a similar design that had fans mounted like this and vents on the opposite side panel, and hard drive temperatures were not great. The design of the hot-swap trays (open vs closed), the amount of space between them for air to flow over and through, is vital - but of course Silverstone's photos don't show any of that.

why does it have to be 8 sata connectors? corsair powers 4 hdd's on the 800D with just one connector

 

[lorraine walsh]

if that is made out of steel in its entirety, I bet this thing would be heavy.

 

[micropage7]

reminds me of something. cases from 1998

 

[GreenDolphin]

Hi all,

New here... I'm currently trying to figure out a home NAS/server setup with hot-swap, so was very interested when I heard of the CS380. I'd originally been interested in their DS380, but it's only for Mini-ITX and I want an ATX/micro-ATX form factor for better expansion.
Sorry for the late reply, but only recently found the thread.

I know it for certain.

there are much much better cases for people who just want to drop an mITX board w/ raid controller and have 8 hotswap drives.

personally I'm looking at the 2 below which support SAS on the backplanes.
View attachment 79770

or this one
View attachment 79773

slozomby, would you mind posting a link to the 2nd case above (I assume the first is a U-Nas NSC-800)?

or you get a cheap atx case with lots of 5 1/4 bays and add these: my current method.
View attachment 79771

Yes, otherwise I'm thinking of doing the same with a Sharkoon T9. With 9 5.25" bays, it'll fit 12-15 drives with three 4-in-3 or 5-in-3 hotswap cages, and an ATX mobo. I've seen several reports of people using them for many-drive setups.