I remember a time when Silverstone used to think before making a case what happened, its a great build bud well done for getting past those problems.

That case seems to have been designed to get the most amount of flexibility and maximum use of space and connectivity. Although for that price, I might expect it to make me a cup of tea too.

NICE

@htwingnut hey ! thank you for this video. I built my NAS with this case a few months ago and I faced the same issues I want people to know if they buy this case. I thought I was going to get away with 50-60% speed on the disk fans and I was so happy the NAS was so quiet at first, but the SAS drives quickly raised to the 60s degrees. After playing with the fans speeds I was still unsatisfied with 50+ degrees on full speed. Looking at the specs I'm certain they lie on these fan specs. I bought two Noctua NF-A9 PWM because thicker = more static pressure (yes they fit with no issues) and even at full speed it's so much quieter and cooler (45 degree max temp on hottest disk under load). I also isolated (with tape) the whole disk cage to force the fans to get air from the front and not recycle air from the case. Other than that I'm happy with this case. TLDR for everyone that is considering this case: - Get 2x Noctua NF-A9 PWM if you want quieter - Isolate the disk cage to force airflow through the disks with fresh air from the front - If your PSU has the turn off fan feature (my case I used seasonic focus), set the fan as always on!

I think I've seen that the backplane can be powered from either the molex connectors or the SATA-power ones, and there's no need to connect both. Want to try that out? It could save you some cable-clutter if you only have to run one type of cable.

Another thing I noticed is that you will want to put some active cooling on that LSI adapter, those are intended to be installed in a rack mounted chassis with high air flow cooling, which is why they don't come with a fan on them. They get quite hot really quickly with no fan installed on them.

Wow, between the temperature performance and the cable wear issue, the fans shipped with this case seem kind of unacceptable for a NAS focused case.

So frustrating these days that the consumer boards are just designed for a huge gpu, and have abandoned pretty much hosting anything else through the PCIe lanes.

To know for sure measure the drives with a pair of calipers. I bet there not all the same.

9:45 you forgot to add LSI card's price...

I was interested in this case and now I'm not. What's up with all the issues when their prices act like it's primo.

My wallet/Bank account cringes when i hear those words Silverstone. So expensive on cases. I woulda actually loved this but went with a Ncase N3 since it wasnt $900 lol.

We used to have proper full ATX cases, thanks gamers.

Get a bunch of 90 Degree SATA Adapters for the drive backplane

Did you test the blackplanes with legit SAS drives?

i think i3 14100 is 4c 8t if im not wrong

I hate when they just write the slotsize and not the actual lanes... but nice build there! and interesting case

This case is really expensive and hard to get.

You shouldn't be powering the whole backplane with a single SATA power rail, it is likely that far apart to try to force you into using two separate power rails. Also using any kind of power extension is a fire hazard and I would avoid that like the plague.

This case has been tested on other youtube channels, the 4 drives below will be hotter because the airflow is blocked by where the PSU is mounted, this case is not on my buying list, in my opinion this chassis is even worse than the Antec P101 Silent because the hard drive backplane has no holes, resulting in unsatisfactory heat dissipation, paying much money on such product is stupid.

Why not go with AMD B550 or X570 with a 5600 CPU and a $30 GPU for your NAS? You could save money and get the same performance in running hard drives and networking, but you can also use ECC RAM with AMD. No need for the latest generation for a NAS computer.