Silverstone revealed CS01, CS01-HS, CS02 and CS03

[snowComet]

In November, SilverStone held a press event in Japan, and revealed several new cases, included the CS01, CS01-HS and a prototype CS-02. CS-01 HS, I believed, is developed from a case that SilverStone showed in Cebit 2014, called DS260 (I'm not sure if DS260 was a prototype or not, and you can see the DS260 here: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/126542-silverstone-showed-off-new-nas-case-in-cebit-2014/, or here ). The DS260 is a mini version of the DS380 NAS case, which housed 6 hot swappable 2.5" drive bays, 2 non-hot swappable 2.5" drive bays, support itx motherboard, and has a AP182 fan install on the bottom part of the case for cooling.

Then in that press event in November, SilverStone revealed the CS-01 and CS-01 HS. Compare with DS260, SilverStone had made some design tweaks on the CS-01 HS, like changed the 180mm to a 120mm fan, and changed the psu position. As for the CS-01, compared with the CS-01 HS, those hot swappable drive bays are removed, changed to 2 3.5" drive bays.

 

 

 

In the press event in Japan

SST-CS01-HS

SST-CS01

 

In that press event, SilverStone also revealed a case @ prototype stage, called CS02. Similar to CS01-HS, CS02 houses multiple 2.5" drives. CS-02 has 8 2.5" hot-swappable drive bays, with 2 non-hot swappable 2.5" drive bays.

In CES 2015, SilverStone again showed the CS01 and CS01-HS, and confirmed the specs of CS-02 and CS-03. According to computerbase.de's article, besides the 10 drive bays arrangement, the CS-02 has 2 expansion slots, two 80 mm fans for cooling, and supported SFX power supply only. As for the CS03, it houses 4 3.5" drives and 4 2.5" drives, and has a 120 mm for cooling.

CS02

CS02 @ the press event in Japan

CS03

Specs of these 4 cases from computerbase.de (with Google translate from German to English)

There is still no updated info on price and availability of these 4 cases.

http://www.gdm.or.jp/crew/2014/1111/92333 (in Japanese)

http://www.computerbase.de/2015-01/silverstone-neue-alte-kompaktgehaeuse-auf-der-ces-2015/ (in German)

http://www.thinkcomputers.org/silverstone-shows-new-cs-01-cs01-hs-mini-itx-cases/

[qwertywarrior]

finally

[flibberdipper]

I like them.

[ahhming]

 just like my FT02  but smaller , i like it!

[Misanthrope]

Those are damn nice, good thing they're small I might be able to afford an aluminum case but well judging from their previous mitx case I might not 

[Scheer]

I find it a little funny... the "High Storage" case supports 8 2.5" drives, so a total of 16TB with 2TB drives, or are 3TB 2.5" drives available?

 

The regular one could have 2 2TB 2.5" drives, and 2 8TB 3.5" drives so a total of 20TB storage, and at a lower cost.

[snowComet]

I find it a little funny... the "High Storage" case supports 8 2.5" drives, so a total of 16TB with 2TB drives, or are 3TB 2.5" drives available?

 

The regular one could have 2 2TB 2.5" drives, and 2 8TB 3.5" drives so a total of 20TB storage, and at a lower cost.

Toshiba just announced a 2.5" 3TB drive, expect to be available in May...

 

http://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/toshiba-launches-largest-capacity-2-5-inch-hdd-with-3tb-capacity/

[AlexGoesHigh]

dat cs01 looks a lot like a mini g5 mac pro

[Psykomantis00]

They look like very nice. 

[carolkarine]

Ft03 and prodigy had a love child, and it's honestly not doing it for me.

[brownninja97]

i think im not really a fan of silverstone, i pretty much dont like any of the cases that they make at this.  

[zacRupnow]

CS01 will be great for a hackintosh system.

[mymouthandi]

I like those a lot, especially the high storage one. Sadly 2.5" drives just don't have higher enough capacity. Can't even get 3TB drives yet so it's a bit limiting. Still, they are hot swap bays so it's pretty cool nonetheless. 

[Scheer]

Toshiba just announced a 2.5" 3TB drive, expect to be available in May...

 

http://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/toshiba-launches-largest-capacity-2-5-inch-hdd-with-3tb-capacity/

 

By then the Seagate and WD 10TB drives will be out, so you'd get 24TB in the high storage, and 26TB in the non-high storage.

 

It really isn't a big deal, I just find it a little funny.