Testing PCIe Storage Tricks in the SilverStone CS382 UATX Case!

i have no words for how happy i am to see optical disc drive(s) along side a plentiful amount of 3.5" bays, this is literally my perfect nas case and my next computer is going inside it.

ICY DOCK is SO expensive..

How much storage do you need in your home lab server? Yes.

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 stock 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. plus the noise. 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 to help circulate air on that zone!

I've got the CS380 for my home server, it's a great case. I used one of the 5.25" bays to add in a 4x2.5" hot swap sled so now I can have up to 12 drives total. Main flaw with it for the intended use-case is the airflow/cooling not being that great, but you can work around that with the included fan mounts etc.

These Icy dock bays are nice BUT way too expensive for what it is.

I would like to see builds with this case. low power and high performance, since it can support both.

I just finished my homelab build using the CS382. The case is fantastic overall, you have to use what the case can do to make your life easier. Like pulling out the drive-cage when installing the motherboard etc. The drive bay fans are connected to the "backplane" and have no speed control and run full speed and full noise all the time. I've connected them to the motherboard for PWM control. Running a bit on the more "Pedestrian" side with mine. AMD 5600G on a B550M board, 128GB memory, LSI SAS HBA, 6x 16TB drives, 2x 2TB NVME and 2x 2TB SATA on Unraid. In the future i would love to upgrade the motherboard to something more "enterprise", but that wasn't i the budget just yet. Overall I'm extremely happy with the case, very happy i preordered it and waited for months for it to be delivered (I ordered mine in January). Would I build another homelab server in it? YES. 100%

Love your build ❤ I will build one similar for myself. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.

I love "perfect home server" content! There just aren't many options out there for cases, and standard form factor motherboards that support ECC.

As an owner of this cases predecessor, this looks good. The drive bay cooling is definitely an improvement as the CS380 had them on the side with the same narrow cutouts the CS382 has, which is not the best cooling performance. Inverting the layout makes room for a big GPU, and keeps the cable management from draping too many cables across the motherboard. One tip I would suggest for anyone getting this case is to label the drive trays with the serial # of the drive you're putting in it. If you have a failure, and don't recall which sled which drive is in, you cannot see that with the drives in the trays.

Nice review. Have 2 of the first Icy Dock units you mentioned for a pair of installations that work very nicely.

I've been looking to build out a new home server; definitely going to be looking into this and would love to see some finished builds in it.

After watching this video, I am buying one of these cases. It looks so awesome. That's a really usable case format, and I could easily see how it's layout is better than my old Fractal cases.

That looks awesome, love Silverstone gear.

The optical drive bay could also be used with a SATA caddy for another 2.5" drive. This case has basically all the options. Top work, Silverstone.

These kinds of videos are great Wendell

Look at Silverstone, putting both a proper 5.25" bay AND a slimline optical drive slot in with all those other things. It's really very impressive. I do wonder what it would take for them to make a solid state version, lets say all those hot swap bays changed to 14mm thick SSD slots and more of them in the same basic case frame

which cpu and mobo is that? 20w idle at wall is something i want to know

I bought two CS380 - basically the predesessor of this case for Nas builds. Complete Garbage: The drives run super hot within minutes since the cooling is far from being sufficient. Even diy fixes from the net and additional Nuctua fans did improve this very much. The new case does not look so much different regarding the drive cooling. 8 * 16+TB HDs runing a parity check will toast the whole thing.