SilverStone SST-FS304B - 4 Bay Aluminium Trayless Hot Swap Mobile Rack Backplane with Fan and Lock for SAS/SATA HDD, black

When I first received this item and installed it i was delighted with it. It was perfect for my needs.... A home server tucked away in my closet. As the other reviewer stated the fan on this is LOUD. And comes preset to High. This didnt bother me at first as it was in the closet. but then recently after roughly 3 weeks or so the fan was vibrating and causing alot of noise. I actually thought it was my psu fans starting to fail at first. but when i turned the fan down to low it has stopped the vibrations and noise. It is back working as i would expect now but I would definitely advise putting your fan to low before installing. I may end up returning this item if the noisey fan returns. Pros: -Simple installation. -Plug and Play,essentially. -really convenient for server. Cons: -Loud fan, even when running perfectly and at Low speed. -Cheap fan, which in my case is causing issues. If this item worked perfectly I would give it 4 stars. I take one away for the cheap fan. And one away as my particular one has started to run into issues after 3 weeks of use.

Quality of the materials is great, and looks absolutely stunning. The covers run smooth and the drives work seamlessly. However there is room for serious improvements that make it not recommended for all situations, all related to silent pcs. Specially two issues: - The fan at the back is pure rubbish that works too loud and unnecesarily fast. There is absolutely no situation where you would want a small (80mm) fan spinning at 3000rpm (or 2400 rpm on low (excuse me??)) to cool some disks. Disks don't get that hot, specially on prosumer pcs, where this product will probably be used. Even at 2400rpm the noise is absolutely unbearable. I removed mine right away (easy, just 4 long screws). It would be better if it had a 120mm or 140mm fan spinning at 1000ish rpm, and would be certainly enough. - Where is not a hint of any noise dampening material anywere. It would be great if the covers had some. Overall, the construction is good, compact (fitted in my small Antec Solo) and does what id should do very well. So just take a star for that s***ty fan. Also, the product description in Amazon at the time of this writing is not correct, is a 3 x 5.25 bay case, not 2 x 5.25 (I'm spanish. English is not my mother languaje. Bear with me)

After installing in computer I inserted a a seagate 3.5 harddrive . There was a large crunch . The drive would not come back out .I had to remove the unit from my pc & take the top off the unit to retrieve the drive . I discovered the eject mechanism was made of a thin piece of plastic that had broke . I have used different manufactures of this type of drive in the past with no problems. I went with the silverstone version because it matched my case. I cant send the unit back because I had to remove the top to get my drive back im not happy

This needed sturdier components for both eject mechanisms. Both a 2.5" and 3.5" drive ended up getting stuck in my item and I ended up having to unscrew the case in order to push out both drives. The mechanism for the 3.5" drive relied on a plastic hinge which in any case would not have lasted long and had broken in my case and the one for the 2.5" was unable to engage once a drive was inserted. I always read the reviews before buying except in this case and I would urge anyone looking at this to do the same or just AVOID ALTOGETHER!

I cannot get it to work.

It didn’t fit inside the unit I had bought it to use in; so it’s always sat unused on a shelf at the back gathering dust Therefore in truth, unable to give an accurate or honest appraisal

This is not fir for purpose. All of the inside is made of plastic. The drives do not fit properly, are hard to insert and even harder to remove often jamming as the plastic front does not match the plastic trays. Avoid at all costs. Not fir for purpose.

Generally well engineered, the only problem with these tool-less racks is that there is a lot of vibration from the hard drives which are essentially "loose" and not screwed down. I had to fit my hard drives with silicon anti-vibration pads. I think this problem is typical of all tool-less racks. Also, the stock fan on this unit is pretty noisy. I replaced it with a Be Quiet branded 80mm fan which is much better.

コルセア７８０Tに利用する筈が、同ケースの５インチベイには設置出来ませんでした。 カバーの一部が接触してしまい、どうしても入らない。 同時に購入したBDドライブはあっさりと入って固定出来たのに。 0.何ミリか、本体が大きい為ではないかと・・。 残念２。カバーだけメタル製、本体はほぼプラスチックで強度に不安。HDの抜き差しをするピン部分もプラスチック。これでは折れるのではないかなと。（テコの原理で出し入れする機構） USB３×２もついている製品の中では良さそうに見えたのですが・・・。 他のケースには入るかもしれない、と思って次の休日にでも試行錯誤してみます。

Encaja perfecto en mi servidor de rack, al contrario de lo que dicen en otras opiniones configurado en la velocodad rápida de ventiladores es muy silencioso, en un ambiente de servidors con mucho ruido de ventiladores no se escucha en absoluto. El sistema de inserción de disco es muy cómodo ya que no hacden falta herramientas ni tornillos y da sensación de seguridad. El led de acceso al disco es el mismo que el de alimentación, parpadea en violeta sobre el led azul de estado y se nota poco, pero es la única pequeñapega que puedo ponerle. He comprado dos, y compraré más para el resto de mis servidores.

Had to fiddle to get a disk drive to line up in either bay. Couldn't eject from either bay, drive were stuck and had to be pushed out from the back. The only thing that worked correctly was the USB-3 ports. Way to much money for just those.

Este tipo de rack de 5.25'' donde colocar discos duros de 3,5'' (y en este caso de 2,5'') son muy prácticos para tener discos duros "externos" usando simplemente discos duros internos normales, que son más baratos y se pueden guardar en cajas de plástico par almacenarlos y transportarlos. Además quita el engorro de un alimentador más, los cables por fuera y al ir directo al SATA de la placa permite velocidades superiores, en especial para SSD. SilverStone es una marca bastante reconocida de cajas, y tiene tanto cajas como accesorios bastante interesantes y algunos con un acabado en aluminio atractivo. Pero este rack es bastante endeble: todo de plástico, algunos discos se atascan en las ranuras, como es de plástico hay que forzar la puerta con cuidado y en definitiva no cumple su función con solvencia, así que me cuesta recomendar este en concreto. Hay otros racks como algunos de la marca Orico o IcyBox que son mucho más robustos. Sí que es verdad que le salva de la quema total que incluya un par de puertos USB 3.0 con conexión a la placa, y que ambas ranuras tienen su interruptor individual y correspondiente LED que indica si se ha activado o no. Luego en cuanto a diseño interno, quitando la robustez, podría tener compartida la conexión de alimentación, porque además teniendo interruptor individual por disco no tiene sentido. Sólo lo veo útil si simplemente quieres apagar y encender los discos sin querer sacarlos frecuentemente, por tema de reducir ruido/consumo en ocasiones, y además poder tener un par de USB 3.0 que igual no tengas integrados en la caja. Si no es el caso, mejor buscar otro más robusto.

最近は5インチベイのあるケースが少ないので出番が少ないかも知れませんが、多いケースならこれはお勧めです。 シャドウベイを撤去して5インチベイに置き換えできる様なケースなら、シャドウベイなんかにHDDを付けずにこれ使った方が断然使い勝手が良いです。 ただしいくつか注意点があります。 5インチベイにレールがあるケースには、この商品は対応しませんので、レールなしのケース専用です。 また、取り付けネジは短いものじゃないと、ドライブチャンバー内にネジが食い込んでしまい、故障の原因や着脱ができなくなる原因になるので気をつけて下さいね。 5ドライブタイプなので、SATAが6つある、ATX以上のマザーの方にお勧めです。 (余った一つは光学ドライブにどうぞ)