SilverStone SST-CS381 - Case Storage ATX Midi Tower Computer Case, black internal, support 8x 3.5" or 2.5" Hot-Swap HDD Bays, lockable front door, black

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Buy SilverStone TJ04-EW Mid-Tower Case Fractal Design Define R5 Case [Silent Case, Good Water Cooling support] For more information, including part numbers, we have the rest of this article. Getting Started: Choosing the Form Factor RAM: 2x Crucial 32GB DDR4-2666 UDIMM CT32G4DFD8266 (The exact listing is here: https://www.devicedeal.com.au/crucial-32gb-ddr4-2666-udimm) A high-quality silent computer case that supports up to 11 drives and offers the best value for your money. It is a spacious mid-tower case that supports up to an E-ATX motherboard and comes with all the essential features and goodies. The case is roomy and can support eight 3.5”/2.5” drives, two 2.5” drives, and a 5.25” drive, where you can also fit a 3.5”/2.5” drive. For cooling, the case comes pre-installed with two 140mm fans in the front and one 140mm fan at the rear. The fan speed can be controlled using the in-built fan speed controller inside the case. When it comes to computer cases then Fractal Design is one of the best manufacturers around. Here we have Fractal Design Node 804, which is a micro-ATX Cube Case that may seem small but has enough room to fill almost all the high-end components. The case can support up to ten 3.5-inch drives and up to four 2.5-inch drives. The case offers good airflow and you can mount up to ten fans; four 120mm fans at the front, four 120mm/140mm at the top, and two 120mm fans at the rear. Three Fractal Design 120mm Silent Series R2 fan comes included with the case along with a fan controller. The front panel includes two USB 3.0 ports, audio ports, and one slim slot-in optical drive bay.

We reviewed the Supermicro X11SPM-TPF mATX Intel Xeon Scalable Motherboard, and it seemed like a perfect fit. It had SFP+ 10GbE, multiple expansion slots, enough onboard SATA to power all of the drives, 6x DIMM slots, and plenty of PCIe all perfect to go bigger and do a converged storage and virtualization platform. Dynatron L13 The SilverStone CS381 is a chassis we first saw from SilverStone at Computex 2018. It promises an 8-bay storage platform for mATX servers with large (quiet) fans and room for features such as GPUs. Silverstone CS381 MATX Front The case has a swing-open front panel that opens up like a door for easy access. For noise reduction, the case front and side panels are fitted with sound dampening foam. The front I/O ports include two USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, Audio ports, and a fan speed controller switch (high/stop/low). The front USB ports are illuminated with White LED that lets you spot them easily in dark or low lighting conditions. Buy SilverStone CS380 Mid-Tower Case Antec P101 Silent Mid-Tower Case [Quiet, Great Quality, Value for Money, 11 Drives Support, Spacious] We are specifically using this Flex ATX Supermicro Xeon D platform with passive cooling because it has an onboard SAS controller with SFF-8643 SAS ports and a passively cooled CPU. Other features like the M.2 slot sit on the same plane as the motherboard. As a server motherboard made specifically for this type of application, one immediately notices a nuance of the SilverStone CS381. The entire front of the chassis on the motherboard plane is solid. SilverStone CS381 Standard Rear IO Airflow

Perhaps this is a workstation chassis with great storage instead of a server chassis. Coming soon, we are going to do a build that will force the system to do both that we think is going to be excellent featuring the 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs, 192GB of RAM, a GPU, high-speed networking and more. It is taking a second full build, but now that we understand the chassis better, we are very excited.

The case can support up to 450mm long graphics cards (270mm with HDD tray), 180mm tall CPU Cooler, up to 360mm Radiator, and up to 290mm ATX PSU. It is a good-looking case, and other features include removable dust filters (front/rear), cable management, and tool-less drive installation. Overall, an excellent case for building a silent workstation or server and is also very affordable. Antec P101 Silent Mid-Tower Case Specifications Cooling is provided via two 120mm dual ball bearing fans with 70K hours of life rated on them. One can swap these out for a 240mm radiator. One can also add additional cooling on the side of the chassis so that a GPU can be cooled. SilverStone CS381 Rear Beyond the larger form factor, Silverstone is using SFX power supplies. That has two advantages over mITX offerings to date. First, it allows for higher power output power supplies as Silverstone even has an 800W SFX PSU with an 80Plus Titanium rating. Second, it allows Silverstone to keep the chassis relatively small.

The front bottom corner is an expanse of solid sheet metal broken up only by the motherboard standoffs. You will likely need to remove drive cages or use a specific size screwdriver to get to some of the components. SilverStone CS381 Motherboard Standoffs A pretty solid mid-tower case from SilverStone that can accommodate up to nine 3.5-inch drives and up to six 2.5-inch drives. The case features an innovative hard drive cooler, which is basically a heatsink that attaches to the hard drive bay assembly. It also supports four 5.25-inch for more expansion. For airflow, it comes with a 120mm exhaust fan at the rear and a 120mm intake fan on the right side of the case. You can also install more fans if you want to increase the airflow and cooling performance. The front I/O ports include two USB 3.0 ports and audio ports. Those two fans are 3-pin fan models. This chassis was released in 2019, and at this point just about every motherboard has 4-pin PWM fan headers. We wish that SilverStone included 4-pin fans here. SilverStone CS381 3 Pin Fans Buy SilverStone DS380 Mini-ITX Case Fractal Design Node 804 Micro-ATX Cube Case [Supports up to Ten 3.5” Drives, Great Room & Airflow]

HBA is probably unneeded now. I'd probably keep an eye out for one, and snap it up if you can find one cheap, but no need for it right away.Today we have an article that stems from a personal project. Ever since I first saw the CS381, even before our SilverStone CS381 review, I wanted to turn one into a ZFS storage server. Usually, these types of builds are extremely easy. This ended up being harder precisely because of the mATX form factor. In this article, we are going to talk about the thought process behind the build, and what you can take away from it. The particular system was planned as a FreeNAS build, but we are going to let this system run TrueNAS Core starting with nightly builds. You can apply everything here to FreeNAS today, or we expect TrueNAS Core in a few months as that is launched. Building a FreeNAS TrueNAS Core ZFS mATX Appliance Video One can see a standard rear I/O panel. Access to the area is great and ports are not in a deep recess making them easy to reach. SilverStone CS381 Standard Rear IO