SilverStone Technology CS351 5-Bay SAS-12G / SATA-6G hot-swappable high Performance NAS Chassis, SST-CS351B

Nice build plenty of vents for air rotation, add different fan size and enough space for 3 fan graphic card.

For 200 you get a terrible experience but an ok one.This case is well made but was the most frustrating build i ever had to do.Pros:1. Well built and top quality construction2. High end hard drive bays that feel nice and is made of metal and plastic.Cons:1. No included SATA cables.2. No included cable management zip tie's3. Terrible cable management.4. Terrible airflow design.5. Useless 40mm tri fan mounts that weakened the area to the point it is to easy bend.6. Motherboard does not fit flush with the IO shield so it is easy to push on it and cause it to come loose!7. Multiple screw points blocked!! Requires disassembling the case to install fans or screw down the motherboard.8. 5-Drive Bay has to completely be taken apart including the circuit board in the far back internally to be able to remove the crappy included fan for installing a new one. I had terribly difficulty putting the circuit board back!9. Hard drives require being screwed in and is not easy toolless design. Cheap thin screws that will likely break. Seeing as the bays have a locking feature idk why we have to screw the hard drives into the bays.10. The power LED's are always on on ALL drive bays even if they are empty. This makes it hard to know when a drive might go bad.To many inconveniences for the price.

I cant give it 5 stars because of the old design and slight difficulty fitting a fully fledged PC with GPU in it, but my Ryzen 1600 and GTX 1060 as my file server/Plex server fit no problem and cooling with the factory heatsinks and HDD fan havent been an issue either with 5 HDDs filling the bays.If you are fitting higher power parts then you will need to add fans yes, but it is a solid choice given the price point. Other NAS cases that are much worse cost as much or more.

If you're building a multi-use NAS and home lab PC, this case works very well. The cable management can be a bit tight, so consider a small-form factor PSU with modular capabilities. Another suggestion would be to plug the HDD fan into the mobo to bring the speed down so as not to be so loud. I haven't added the smaller fans to the back, but will be soon to help with airflow. In all, this case works well and helped lower the footprint of my home built NAS.

I've been looking for a 4+ bay enclosure that didn't cost several hundred, has a pcie slot for a quadro and accepts matx board and this does the trick!Setup:Erying matx board with a 11800h32gb of ddr45 10TB HGST hddsQuadro P620Unraid ProOverall pretty fantastic case for the price, sure it's a retooled Sugo SG02 but if you're using fairly power efficient hardware the airflow design is more than adequate.Only complaint is the included 80mm fan that cools the hdd cage is a tad on the loud side, nowhere near 1u server fan loud but it was loud enough that i swapped it for a noctua

I don't know what I could add to what Apollo said. Except for maybe so close yet so far. While other reviewers found the quality to be good, I did not. You have to take the whole thing apart for the build, then struggle to get everything lined up again. I don't mind not having sata cables or zip ties, but at the end of the day, the slots for the PCI cards were too narrow for the DP or HDMI connectors that I have; this is a dealbreaker. My advice to the manufacturer is just make the case just a little bit bigger, dispense with the two internal drive bays, you'll need that space for cables. Then make it just a little bit taller to make more air space between the power supply and the CPU cooler. A couple more liters here and there will make all of the difference. I haven't given up on building a m-atx board NAS with hot swap bays, just not with this one.

This case is awesome for what I needed it for!! Great value!!!

Really questionable design choices with this case, mostly stemming from the placement of the PSU. Due to the location of the PSU, it is sitting effectively right on top of the CPU heatsink/fan! And if you try to maximize the CPU cooler height to the specs that Silverstone advertises, you wind up with a situation where the two are practically touching. Not to mention that once you plug in all your power cables along with Sata cables to the backplane, there is practically no room for any airflow coming from the internal 80mm fan.As another review mentioned, underneath the 5-bay cage you can put more HDDs. That location would have been way better to put the PSU as then you could have more room for the CPU cooler to breathe, the 80mm HDD fan to actually move air, and be able to put a normal 120/140mm fan in the rear. This case has a desperate need for better cooling options, especially intake. Having everything set as exhaust to try and rely on passive intake is not enough.My CPU (14700k) was idling at 65C and would instantly thermal throttle to 100C under any type of load, even with a heavy undervolt and power limit. I moved over to a Node 804 and temps were infinitely better, 35-40C idle with 80C loads.Not to mention the Node 804 is just so much easier to work in. The CS351 you have to remove everything just to change simple things.I'm not sure what this case is designed for. I'm stuck with it since I missed the return window. Best I can think is staying with an i3, maybe, MAYBE, it can support an i5. And only use this thing (as the name implies) a NAS, with MAYBE some light media server usage. I'll maybe use it as a backup server in the future.The only good thing about it is that it's small, and the HDD cages work decently enough.