Silverstone CS381 announced at CES 2018

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Update:
the Silverstone CS381 is expected to be available around late Q2 or early Q3 according to the company.

I just came across and saw this new case from Silverstone. The new design is quite impressed. it holds 8x3.5 hotswap + 2 SSDs. Couldn't find more detail information on it yet, but definitely will keep eyes on it.

Dimension of the case:
398(W)×320(D)×232(H)mm

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FINALLY Some Great Looking mATX Cases for 2018 !
 
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Heh, looks almost identical to a design I made in SketchUp years ago when I had flights of fancy of designing my own NAS case.

Looks like a nice design mostly. Very nice that it can fit mATX. Like the two large fans in the back, though the airflow looks somewhat constrained by the front door.


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sfx power supply :(
dont like this.
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Nothing wrong with SFX, except maybe the lack of choice. An 8 HDD NAS system isn't going to require a lot of power. At least it isn't TFX or FlexATX.
 
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I would like a micro-atx chassis with atx psu and room for 16 hotswap 3.5" drives.
2x 2.5" for os or cache drives would also be good.
Should be possible to make a chassis with 2 stacks of 8 drives side by side.

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I think the CS380 - which takes the same number of drives is still a better choice, its about the same size (probably less by volume) and gives you an extra 2x5.25 bays for a 2.5 inch hostswap rack for an additional 8 - 12 drives if needed.

Already available and cheap (£100)
 
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TomUK said:
I think the CS380 - which takes the same number of drives is still a better choice, its about the same size (probably less by volume) and gives you an extra 2x5.25 bays for a 2.5 inch hostswap rack for an additional 8 - 12 drives if needed.

Already available and cheap (£100)
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The biggest turn off for me and the CS380 is the fact that the bays don't have status leds. From the video, it looks like the CS381 has them. I just wish we got something like this with SAS3 support. :(
 
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jahsoul said:
The biggest turn off for me and the CS380 is the fact that the bays don't have status leds. From the video, it looks like the CS381 has them. I just wish we got something like this with SAS3 support. :(
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CS380 supports SAS and there are HDD indicator leds on the backplane, the trays have a acrylic "wand" running though them so you can see the activity led on the front of the tray - not sure what it indicates yet though as I need to BIOS update my board before I can test (ASrock E3V5 arrived with a V1 BIOS and I need to update support Kaby Lake - Skylake Celeron should be arriving tomorrow so I can get it updated)

Will post back with my findings! :)
 
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EffrafaxOfWug said:
Closest I saw in a tower format with SAS3 support were a couple of enclosures made by InWin;
InWin IW-PLV Tower
InWin IW-MS08

Neither of them are really compact in the sense I'm used to, but the MS08 (mATX motherboard) would have been a buy from me if I could have found anyone selling it.
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That IW-MS08 was definitely on my wishlist, but I couldn't find it anywhere either and would probably have to buy it direct


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CS380 supports SAS and there are HDD indicator leds on the backplane, the trays have a acrylic "wand" running though them so you can see the activity led on the front of the tray - not sure what it indicates yet though as I need to BIOS update my board before I can test (ASrock E3V5 arrived with a V1 BIOS and I need to update support Kaby Lake - Skylake Celeron should be arriving tomorrow so I can get it updated)

Will post back with my findings! :)
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I had no idea that the CS380 had indicator leds. I might look into it a little more.
 
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InWin MS08 is almost perfect chassis for a SOHO/Lab solution, not available anywhere yet, a few guys at my employer had a serious go at trying to get some over several months but could not get a commitment from any EMEA distributor on availability unfortunately
 
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