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Model: SilverStone Technology CS382 8-Bay SAS-12G / SATA-6G Hot-swappable High Performance Micro-ATX NAS Chassis, SST-CS382
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I have this case. Inside it I have a Gigabyte B760M DS3H, i5-12600K, 32GB DDR4 RAM, 8 drives off an LSI 9207-8i and 650w EVGA PSU running Unraid. I replaced 2 of the fans with a Noctua to help it be a little quieter. My main draw to this case was the SATA/SAS hot swappable backplane. If you're looking for a small NAS/Unraid build and you won't need more than 8 drives, this is a good case option.
You're not wrong. But I do think there is plenty of value in the hot swap setup, from a cable management perspective. When you do have a case filled with a lot of components, it can be a challenge to get drives swapped out. Often times many items have to be taken out before the HDD can be swapped. It might even require removing the motherboard.
I think most home users have very little need for hot-swapping drives. Even the home lab type of users. But the ability to replace drives without messing with the interior of the case is really helpful.
There are much cheaper options if you don't care about hot swap (if you are a home user you almost certainly don't). For example, Cooler Master N400 is $70 and can hold 8x3.5, 3x2.5 and 2x5.25 drives.
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Does anyone have a list of all the internals they end up putting into something like this? I guess mostly just mobo, power supply and processor. Somewhat of a pain (im lazy) to try and build a NAS to meet the specs of the case. Or maybe im missing something?
Does anyone have a list of all the internals they end up putting into something like this? I guess mostly just mobo, power supply and processor. Somewhat of a pain (im lazy) to try and build a NAS to meet the specs of the case. Or maybe im missing something?
Look at the reviews, some list the components folks put in them. Some slick setups.
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Does anyone have a list of all the internals they end up putting into something like this? I guess mostly just mobo, power supply and processor. Somewhat of a pain (im lazy) to try and build a NAS to meet the specs of the case. Or maybe im missing something?
Yeah this is basically just a case, it comes with a couple internal fans for the HDD bay, and an fan for the whole case, but other than that what you need to put it to build a NAS, literally everything, motherboard, memory, cpu, cooling soluting for your cpu, power supply, and obviously drives.
I had better experience buying a NAS than building my own. Got a QNAP Arm based with 2 10gb ports, enough for Plex and basic stuff and then a separate mini PC for some virtualization projects
Anyone know how regular shucked drives would fare in this? I never gave it much thought but recently read that supposedly the red drives are tuned to handle the vibrations from other hard drives in close proximity but I already have a good number of regular WD drives. So I've been looking for a case with heavily damped drive mounting. But I really like the idea of this.
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Sold and shipped by Amazon. If you have a 30% off w. Discover offer this would get you the max $30 off. $184 is an even better price.
If you can live without hot-swap, there are cheaper cases out there. Fractal Design R5 is $125 at B&H (was $75 recently). It holds 8 3.5" HDD + 2 x 2.5"SSD. Remove the 5.25" bays and the 3-drive cage and you can easily fit 10 HDD purchasing another 5-bay cage. Relocate the 3-bay cage you already have and that's 13 HDD with a little creativity.
Hmmm… I have an old laptop. I wonder if I could use that hardware in this???
Would have to do some major mods to the laptop hardware and the case, if it even fits. Not worth the effort IMO. You could use your laptop as a NAS by just just attaching a DAS (direct attached storage) unit with some drives in it to yhe laptop via USB. Or any multi drive external enclosure.
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There are much cheaper options if you don't care about hot swap (if you are a home user you almost certainly don't). For example, Cooler Master N400 is $70 and can hold 8x3.5, 3x2.5 and 2x5.25 drives.
I had better experience buying a NAS than building my own. Got a QNAP Arm based with 2 10gb ports, enough for Plex and basic stuff and then a separate mini PC for some virtualization projects
Plex with Arm? Did you put a pcie video card?
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I think most home users have very little need for hot-swapping drives. Even the home lab type of users. But the ability to replace drives without messing with the interior of the case is really helpful.
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If you can live without hot-swap, there are cheaper cases out there. Fractal Design R5 is $125 at B&H (was $75 recently). It holds 8 3.5" HDD + 2 x 2.5"SSD. Remove the 5.25" bays and the 3-drive cage and you can easily fit 10 HDD purchasing another 5-bay cage. Relocate the 3-bay cage you already have and that's 13 HDD with a little creativity.
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