Silverstone Releases CS280 DIY NAS SFF Chassis

[kewlguy239]

In case you’re a DIY enthusiast in the market for a small form factor (SFF) NAS chassis, Silverstone just released one such product called the CS280.

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[Vatharian]

This may be.... the case.

 

[thundervore]

I was excited about this until I saw 2.5 drives and dual 80mm fans .

All I want is to be able to put in 8 trayless 6TB drives and cool them with 140mm fan.

 

[JQB45]

@Thundervore - I agree, 2.5" drives are a let down, maybe we can persuade them to make a version with 3.5" drive slots.

 

[Glock24]

There's always the DS-380 which provides 8 3.5" bays plus 4 2.5" internal bays. It's very nice, but the build is a bit complicated due to all the SATA cables.

http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=452

 

[SoarinNZ]

Thundervore, DS380 from Silverstone has 8 x 3.5" hotswap and room for 3 x 120mm fans

 

[owens]

This would have been the answer to my DIY NAS problems and filled the gap between custom builds and pre-made from the likes of Synology (Often expensive here in Australia). It's just a pitty about the 2.5" form factor. Maybe in a couple years when SSD's start playing catchup on traditional HDD capacity.

 

[photonboy]

Do these 2.5" NAS devices make sense? Considering the cost of unit, and cost per GB of HDD's, I'd rather get a 4-bay NAS with higher capacity drives.

 

[roger smith]

is it me, or is that pcb really sloppy?

 

[thundervore]

[quotemsg=18479322,0,1754890]There's always the DS-380 which provides 8 3.5" bays plus 4 2.5" internal bays. It's very nice, but the build is a bit complicated due to all the SATA cables.

http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=452[/quotemsg]

True but its not trayless

[quotemsg=18479666,0,2313370]Thundervore, DS380 from Silverstone has 8 x 3.5" hotswap and room for 3 x 120mm fans[/quotemsg]

Its not trayless

 

[Dreamslacker]

Thundervore: Most of these class of cases aren't going to be trayless. The tray allows for flexibility between choosing a 3.5" drive and a 2.5" SSD.
The latter is especially pertinent considering that many of the software RAID options will allow SSD caching of the array (ZFS and even Windows Storage Spaces).

 

[FPrenholato]

Well, could be an awesome case but, given the 2.5" bays, I keep with Fractal Node 304 (isn't that hard to switch a disk) with 6 3.5"/2.5" bays plus space for a SSD at front of the case and the two 92mm fans cool HDs directly. I used two Noctua and my HDDs don't go over 30C (I'm in Brazil).

 

[ron baker]

2.5 HDD CAN go up to 4tb at presnt and probably even more in future. 2.5 drives mean the whole enclosure can be significantly smaller + sff psu easy cabling with backplane BUT should be alu all over

 

[Anathemata]

Unless it is incredibly inexpensive, I don't see how this is any better than the Node 304 (already mentioned above). Yes, swapping out drives is a minor annoyance, but I don't know many DIY NAS builders who have enough read/write requirements to require drive swaps often enough to warrant the factor, and those would likely be willing and able to support a larger form factor.

What was the demand signal for this?

 

[FPrenholato]

[quotemsg=18488223,0,1279701]2.5 HDD CAN go up to 4tb at presnt and probably even more in future. 2.5 drives mean the whole enclosure can be significantly smaller + sff psu easy cabling with backplane BUT should be alu all over[/quotemsg]

Yeah, but still good as WD RED that we usually buy for NAS/BACKUP machines?