SilverStone SST-CS01B - Case Storage Mini-ITX Computer Case, black

Nice looking but limited use case. I use it for a home nas and have it in the living room. Happy with purchase but would suggest to anyone looking at it to make sure they are happy with the drawbacks.

I bought the SST-CS381 looking for something small with hot-swap bays for a server build. At the time, the only place I've been able to see it used is a GamersNexus NAS build on youtube, but they has clearance issues and didn't go into how they solved it.PSU clearance for a a SFX power supply is fine, there's plenty of room over that side of the case, in fact, the Corsair SF450 I put in there comes in a little small.I built this with a 3900X and first off, there is zero chance of getting the stock AMD cooler in this case. I opted to replace it with the Noctua NH-L9A which fits just fine, just about leaves room to use all 4 RAM slots (but it's tight) and has just enough room about it to get some air to the fan.It doesn't run particularly cool, and I suspect it'll have issues under load. Perhaps there is a better cooler, or watercooling (which has its own space issues) but Noctua claim this CPU will run at less than base clock under sustained load using this cooler.Fitting a radiator is apparently possible, at the rear, but the bar across the middle of the case for supporting the hot-swap bays interferes with mounting. Beware of using a radiator that protrudes much past the mounting holes or it simply won't fit.The case comes with two 1300RPM 120mm fans in the rear, they're not PWM and are not quiet (28dBm rated), I'm replacing them with a pair of Noctua fans which are PWM and quieter even at max speed. The left of the case has space for two more fans (and has nice magnetic dust covers (as does the PSU fan vent at the bottom).The hot swap bays have a Mini SAS HD connector on each bay of 4, as well as a 6 pin power connector and a 3 pin fan connector (presumably for the rear case fans, but I prefer for my motherboard to PWM control them, hence replacing them). You'll need an LSI HBA or similar to connect the bays to your system.Overall, I'd say given the issues with clearances, and the inability to run a high end, high core-count CPU under sustained load due to cooler space, the need to replace the fans with better PWM ones, and the need to buy an HBA for those bays, the case is at least £100 overpriced if not more. Without the hot-swap bays, this is a sub £100 case in my opinion.

A heavy duty NAS enclosure to hold a ITX motherboard, Easy to mount Drives either HDD or SSD, total of 8 drives in all. Motherboard choice to accommodate all the drives is challenging. I installed a Min Esata card holding an extra 2 sata connectors but was an expensive addon solution to the motherboard I already owned (as in £30 ish ouch). Better to pay more for the ITX mobo first time around and use the Mini Esata slot for something else (memory/wifi et al). Enclosure is heavy industrial grade safe to have in high risk physical location, well made, with good assembly instructions -if you need them- Comes with all the screws and bolts you could ever wish for.

The media could not be loaded.  Where to start with this... When I spend £304 on a case, I expect it to work perfectly, not like some piece of half-assed thrown together junk.At least four of the HDD caddy's don't click properly when placing them inside the chassis. The power and reset front panel motherboard connectors are too short to reach the pins on my mobo, while the power and HDD led connectors are long enough to reach, wth? I have a mini itx mobo, something the case is supposed to support.Also, I am missing HDD screws for two of the drive caddies. Really not good enough for the price spent.One of the backplane fan controllers is faulty. Where is the quality control?The creme de la creme, the cherry on top... The side panel has not had the two 120mm fan holes cut/drilled though, so I can't fit any fans to the side panel, what a joke. I wouldn't pay £5 for this rubbish, I suggest you do the same....Currently in contact with Silverstone CS to see if they can replace the parts, but let's be honest, I should not have to do this...Silverstone replaced the case, all is now as it should be. What a fiasco though. However, good CS from Silverstone I must day.

Great case. A little pricey but you do get what you pay for. Filled her up with 8 x 2TB SSDs. Temperatues are acceptable with SSD's but might creep up quite high when using normal hard drives and even more so when using 7200rpm drives.Quite tight in the case with not a lot of room, so you will need to use a low profile cpu heatsink and a fully modular psu is probably advisable.

This review is for the CS280 8 bay 2.5in case.This is a really nice case, well built and looks smart, however, it is let down by a huge flaw in its design: there is little airflow over the drives, which means they will run very hot - not good for any electronics, let alone drives...Two fans at the front bottom draw air into the chassis over the motherboard and then out the sides. Airflow upwards into the drive bays is blocked by the 9th internal drive bay.I did look to see if it were possible to retro fit some small fans to force air into the drive bay but when the case is fully populated with PSU/Mobo/cables etc, there would be very little space available.I ended up returning it for this reason. If Silverstone were to revise the design to properly cool the drives, I wouldn't hesitate in buying.

Two Internal bays and 6 x 2.5 hot pull bays, make this an excellent high quality case.The hot pull unit has two standard hdd power connectors not sata power, and takes 6 x sata data connections.Air flow is bottom to top, and the large fan in the in the base is noisier than I would like.

Excellent case, perfect for NAS. Dropped one star as the first item sent to me was incomplete, and had to send back the whole case just to get the few missing parts. No issues with the second delivery.