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

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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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[bonehead123]

These have a lean, mean, fightin machine industrial look to them.... and I like it

But the other stuff...m.E.h...

 

[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.

 

[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).