SilverStone Technology Premium Computer Case

This is an extremely nice NAS case. With an Avoton or Xeon D-based board and (most likely) a SATA HBA, you can create an very competent NAS in this case.The overall aesthetics are excellent. The top-mounted drive cage allows for a front that's completely featureless except for a power button and single LED. A tastefully understated Silverstone logo doesn't intrude on the clean look. A cutout at the top of the back panel affords some modest cable management. The drive caddies themselves are hard (and seemingly very sturdy) plastic with a screwed-on thick aluminum fascia/handle piece that perfectly matches the case. My one (admittedly minor) quibble with the aesthetics is Silverstone's failure to include black thumbscrews for the side panels and black screws for the drive cage.Build quality is on the better end of what can be expected from Silverstone; which is to say that it's very good. (On the other end, I'm looking at you, SG03.) Front, back, top rails, and base of the case are very thick aluminum; side panels, top, and bottom are steel. The case is painted rather than anodized.The case includes a single 120 mm intake fan at the bottom that, sadly, is not PWM. I replaced mine with a PWM fan. (Word of warning: it's nearly impossible to access the fan's screws with the motherboard installed.) The cooling design should be sufficient for components you'd find in even an overpowered NAS; but, if you're ridiculous enough to slap a high-powered CPU and/or GPU in this case, expect trouble. Below the fan is a slide-out washable nylon mesh air filter. (The filter material is welded onto its plastic frame; so, unfortunately, there's no easy way to replace the filter material; nor does the frame really accommodate augmenting the material with an additional layer.) The use of thick aluminum makes for a very quiet case. If you wanted to go crazy pursuing silence, you could probably install some sound-deadening material on the inside of the steel panels.At 14.2 L, this is not the most space-efficient case. But, it's not that bad, either; and most of its volume is height, keeping the footprint rather small. It does make much better use of its space than its sibling, the CS01 (which replaces the hotswap cage with just two 3.5" non-hotswap drives).The hotswap positions in this case do accommodate the 15 mm drive height typical of higher-capacity 2.5" drives.Even taken together, my quibbles with this case don't seem worth knocking off a star. It's an outstanding case for its particular niche.

I struggled to find a case that would fit my Enterprise SAS SSDs due to their thickness, but this case works! I wish it had 8 removable trays, but it has plenty of internal space for the additional drives. I had to remove the UBS 3 outlet due to interference with the power supply, but my MB has 3.0 plugs in the back. Thick aluminum chassis and sides make this a great LAN Party case or NAS. It is a bit overpriced though and there are cheaper options if you don't need the removeable bays.

Just finished putting together my CS01B-HS, it did take a bvit of work. I installed the Motoerboard only to uninstall it 4 times. Took the drive cage in and out 5 timres... silly things like the wifi antenna came unplugged, and my fingers are way too big to get in there.When I installed the M.2 NVME it is on the back of my motherboard. I placed a small heatsink on it to keep it cool. noticed it was very close to the case. 10ga aluminum was too thick, but a piece of 16ga fit nicely. Now the heatsink touches the aluminum shim which touches the side of the case. The entire side of the case is now a heatsink! (and it's about 1/4" thick aluminum) That aluminum shim is bright,i might paint it or take a Sharpie to it to hide it. Now if I can figure a way to get a 10GBASE-T DAC in there...EVGA Z270 Stinger, Core i3-7101TE, 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair Vengence, LSI 9261 controller, 7 x WD Enterprise 600GB 2.5" SAS HDD, 1 x Intel 180GB SATA SSD, 1 M.2 2280 Intel Pro 6000 256GB, Apevia 400W SFX Power Supply, Noctua 120mm Fan, and it all fits!

First impressions of this is that it is worth the ~$150 I paid for it on sale. High quality and High precision build-quality.Being my first SilverStone case I tell you this unveiling will always influence me to consider these products when working on a computing build.