Comments on: Silverstone CS381 8-bay mATX Case Shown at Computex 2018

By: Ed R

Ed R — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 19:52:41 +0000

And that U-NAS chassis isn’t even that great.

By: luxferro

luxferro — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:42:14 +0000

Looks like junk to me. Doesn’t touch the U-NAS NSC-800 in terms of build quality…

By: timofeym

timofeym — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 04:59:59 +0000

I mean it says in the text below the picture “The case itself fits up to mATX motherboards and can handle 4x rear I/O slots.”

Why are there questions?

By: Geo

Geo — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 01:01:09 +0000

There are 4 rear expansion slots. I saw a video of a better view of this system. That red card is actually a 2 slot graphics card, and it looks like the smaller card is single slot with another slot empty.

By: JP Powers

JP Powers — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 21:36:56 +0000

I picked up the Silverstone CS380 last year when I was building up my new NAS, and returned it almost immediately. The hotswap drivebays were a huge draw but the design of the drive cages along with how the fans were mounted meant you effectively had to get destructive and drill extra holes into the case for adequate drive cooling. The rest of the case was decent, but the entire point was hot swap bays, and even after swapping the fans and adding some cardboard “ducting” the drives were idling at 48+C which drove me nuts. Sure, that’s “mostly” fine, but I dropped ~10C on all drives switching out to a Rosewill and Icydock bays.

I’m a big fan of Silverstone iterating on the home server boxes, but I really need to see solid design on the drive cooling before giving them another shot.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 21:34:03 +0000

I wish there was a better view of the rear expansion slots… it looks like maybe there’s 3? That’d be good for something like the Supermicro Flex-ATX Xeon D boards, if you want to use a 2 slot video card.