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The front panel of the SilverStone CS351 case has five 3.5-inch hot-swappable drive bays

SilverStone introduced the CS351 computer case. It is designed for a microATX board and is interesting for the presence of five 3.5-inch drive bays with hot-swap support. That is, it is quite possible to assemble home storage with a network connection in it. At the same time, there is room in the case for a high-performance video card up to 368 mm long, taking up to three expansion slots. In other words, the system configuration can include a professional Nvidia Quadro RTX or AMD Radeon PRO accelerator, or an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 or AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT gaming graphics card.

Drive bays are designed for HDD or SSD with SATA 6Gb / s interface (optional - SAS 12Gb / s). Each drive connects to the motherboard individually. The compartment is ventilated by an 80mm fan and power is supplied via a 4-pin Molex connector. In addition, the chassis can accommodate one 2.5-inch drive. If you encroach on space for a video card, you can add up to seven more 2.5-inch drives.

In terms of ventilation, in addition to the mentioned fan on the wall of the drive bay, there are mounting points for two 80mm fans on the top and three 40mm fans on the back. The case measures 265 x 209 x 411 mm and weighs about 5 kg. The source does not quote its price.

The front panel of the SilverStone CS351 case has five 3.5-inch hot-swappable drive bays