Do you Need 3.5" Drives in Your PC? - Silverstone Booth - CES 2016
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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so we'll begin as always with a shout out to squarespace thanks for allowing
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us to be here at ces 2016.
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so we're here in the silverstone suite and we're going to start with the cases
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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
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start with the mlo8 and the rv zo2 they
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actually feature the same internal structure with the main difference being
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the design of the front fascia so what they've done with these puppies is
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they've gone ahead and abandoned yes my friends they have abandoned three
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and a half inch drives so they're assuming you've either got a
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nas or you've got a two and a half inch storage drive and that's pretty much
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good enough so you can fit an sfxl power
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supply which is kind of a silverstone proprietary form factor but they've
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actually got a fair number of options there an itx motherboard you can fit two
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two and a half inch drives and there's actually ha you can tell i did another
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take of this video because the SSD used to be in there well there you go this is
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what happens when you try to install it with your offhand while you're trying to
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do a video there we go boom tool-less two-and-a-half inch drive installation
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as well as tool is five and a quarter inch drive installation with a simple
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little plastic snap moving around to the back
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there you go pretty much as big a graphics card as you could want to put in whether it's a
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rear blower design or an open air design there's even a little bit of room at the
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top for extra heat pipes or whatever else you're into the other big one over
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here on the itx well actually i guess that third one is itx2 well
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whatever don't stress about it so the other big one here is the rv
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01-e the e is for evolution
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and basically what they've done here is they've again eliminated three and a
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half inch drive compatibility but they have added the ability to put a full
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sized atx power supply in the same form
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factor as the original rv z01 raven case
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so you can instill install that large graphics card you can still install dual
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120mm fans and i believe even a radiator up there if you're using one of their
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slim radiators you can still install an itx motherboard and now you can put a
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full size atx power supply in there the other thing you give up here though is
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the five and a quarter inch slimline optical no longer an
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optician option optical shin
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which brings us over to the cs280 so if
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you guys remember we actually did a build and what would sort of be the
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bigger brother of this guy the ds 380
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back when we did our uh actually up to 12 drive mini nas with seagate six
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terabyte enterprise drives this one
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still has that same kind of you know beautiful aluminum fascia kind of
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premium nas look but again they've done away with three and a half
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inch drives entirely yes you are expected to switch to either
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using two and a half inch hard drives or
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silverstone is ready for the future when people are starting to go full SSD on
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their nas's so it supports up to eight of these little two and a half inch
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sleds it's got a cooling fan vent thing
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in the front with two 80 millimeter fans you go ahead and remove that and other
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than that it's pretty much the most bog standard tiny little case that you could
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possibly imagine other than the fact that it's got that massive backplane so
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that you can install those drives without running any cabling up to the
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drives themselves so you can use the little trays so
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who's gonna build this i don't know but you guys can let me
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know in the comments if you are ready for a two and a half inch drive based
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navs and if i'm completely off my rocker saying that i'm a little bit confused by
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this product although i do think it's very cool because i am one of the few
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people on earth who actually has a solid-state based nas
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so thank you for checking out our coverage of silverstone's cases and
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again a huge thank you to squarespace for allowing us to be here at the show
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