so we'll begin as always with a shout out to squarespace thanks for allowing
us to be here at ces 2016.
so we're here in the silverstone suite and we're going to start with the cases
we're going to have to run through these pretty quickly because they've got a fair amount on display as usual so we'll
start with the mlo8 and the rv zo2 they
actually feature the same internal structure with the main difference being
the design of the front fascia so what they've done with these puppies is
they've gone ahead and abandoned yes my friends they have abandoned three
and a half inch drives so they're assuming you've either got a
nas or you've got a two and a half inch storage drive and that's pretty much
good enough so you can fit an sfxl power
supply which is kind of a silverstone proprietary form factor but they've
actually got a fair number of options there an itx motherboard you can fit two
two and a half inch drives and there's actually ha you can tell i did another
take of this video because the SSD used to be in there well there you go this is
what happens when you try to install it with your offhand while you're trying to
do a video there we go boom tool-less two-and-a-half inch drive installation
as well as tool is five and a quarter inch drive installation with a simple
little plastic snap moving around to the back
there you go pretty much as big a graphics card as you could want to put in whether it's a
rear blower design or an open air design there's even a little bit of room at the
top for extra heat pipes or whatever else you're into the other big one over
here on the itx well actually i guess that third one is itx2 well
whatever don't stress about it so the other big one here is the rv
01-e the e is for evolution
and basically what they've done here is they've again eliminated three and a
half inch drive compatibility but they have added the ability to put a full
sized atx power supply in the same form
factor as the original rv z01 raven case
so you can instill install that large graphics card you can still install dual
120mm fans and i believe even a radiator up there if you're using one of their
slim radiators you can still install an itx motherboard and now you can put a
full size atx power supply in there the other thing you give up here though is
the five and a quarter inch slimline optical no longer an
optician option optical shin
which brings us over to the cs280 so if
you guys remember we actually did a build and what would sort of be the
bigger brother of this guy the ds 380
back when we did our uh actually up to 12 drive mini nas with seagate six
terabyte enterprise drives this one
still has that same kind of you know beautiful aluminum fascia kind of
premium nas look but again they've done away with three and a half
inch drives entirely yes you are expected to switch to either
using two and a half inch hard drives or
silverstone is ready for the future when people are starting to go full SSD on
their nas's so it supports up to eight of these little two and a half inch
sleds it's got a cooling fan vent thing
in the front with two 80 millimeter fans you go ahead and remove that and other
than that it's pretty much the most bog standard tiny little case that you could
possibly imagine other than the fact that it's got that massive backplane so
that you can install those drives without running any cabling up to the
drives themselves so you can use the little trays so
who's gonna build this i don't know but you guys can let me
know in the comments if you are ready for a two and a half inch drive based
navs and if i'm completely off my rocker saying that i'm a little bit confused by
this product although i do think it's very cool because i am one of the few
people on earth who actually has a solid-state based nas
so thank you for checking out our coverage of silverstone's cases and
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