Tuesday, June 4th 2024

Silverstone Also Shows Off Interesting New Storage Enclosures and DAS Products at Computex 2024

Besides innovative cases for AI development and acceleration, Silverstone also showed off some interesting storage enclosures in the 5.25-inch format, to be used with some of the above cases that have 5.25-inch drive bays, such as the Alta D1. The FSM08-NS lets you connect up to 8 M.2 NVMe drives, each with PCIe Gen 4 x4 wiring. The backend of this enclosure plugs into eight SDD86423 Slim SAS 4i connectors. The FS304-Lite takes up three 5.25-inch drive bays, and puts out 4x 3.5-inch SAS or SATA drives, with its backplane supporting SATA or SAS. It even has a 92 mm cooling fan. The ECM30 is a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 to 4x M.2-22

The TS434-10G is a USB 3.2 desktop DAS enclosure. It features four 3.5-inch caddies with SATA 6 Gbps backplanes, which are driven by an ASMedia ASM2074 controller, which is connected to an ASM235CM bridge chip. This bridge chip connects to the host over USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps). There are no hardware RAID formats supported. The MS12-40 is an M.2 USB4 enclosure. You install an M.2-2280 NVMe SSD inside, which is driven at PCI-Express 3.0 x4 (32 Gbps) speeds. An ASMedia ASM2564 bridge chip connects this to 40 Gbps USB4 over a single type-C cable. The enclosure is made of chunky extruded aluminium, its body doubles up as a heatsink.
Silverstone also showed off some innovative storage add-on cards. The ECM30 is a NAScard. It doesn't interface with the system bus. What it does is connect three M.2-22110 slots, each with PCI-Express 4.0 x4 wiring, to a 10 GbE wired networking interface, through a combination of an ASM2812x bridge chip, and a Marvell AQC113 series 10 GbE controller. The ECM40 is a more straightforward device, it converts a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 host bus connection to four M.2-22110 slots, each with Gen 4 x4 wiring, and some active cooling.
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3 Comments on Silverstone Also Shows Off Interesting New Storage Enclosures and DAS Products at Computex 2024

#1
bonehead123
btarunr
These have a lean, mean, fightin machine industrial look to them.... and I like it :D

But the other stuff...m.E.h...
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CheapMeat
I love all the accessories and random stuff Silverstone stuff. I check out their site all the time. Currently using a few different stuff like their SDP12 and SDP11 M.2 boards, and a couple of their expansion cards and the PC starter ones.

I hope Silverstone is reading, but I hope those ECM30 and ECM40 come in BLACK PCBs. The EMC30 is extremely interesting.

The FS304-Lite and FS204B-US look like great contenders against the equivalent IcyDock ones.
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unwind-protect
Surprised they don't have a 4x U.3 in 1x 5.25" slot. There is no competition in that market, with IcyDock charging $400 for their unit (which is electronically NIL).
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