Silverstone Technology Hard Drive Enclosure Internal, 3 X 5.25 Inch to 5 X 3.5 Inch Hot-Swap SATA/SAS Hard Drive Cage, Up to 12Gbit/S Transfer Rate with All Aluminum Body (SST-FS305-12G)

Sturdy but over priced. Mush rather have the old Roseville version for 1/2 the $

If you have the Silverstone case that this fits, this is what you want for a stock look. I concur with the other reviewer Jacob on several points. 1. The drive doors aren't bulletproof but if you are breaking them then you are doing it wrong. You must have no sense of manipulating mechanical things. Just take your time and don't force things. If something isn't closing or whatever, maybe you have the drive backwards. 2. The fan is definitely GARBAGE. I've had this installed and running for about a year and a half. I remember when I first installed it, thinking "I should replace this cheap fan with a Noctua". Unfortunately, I was too eager to get it running and now a year and a half later, I have a dead fan which I discovered when I was investigating a dead hard drive. Lesson learned. One note about the fan, it's 80mm, but it's only 20mm deep, so if you replace it, you'll probably have to figure out how to get a normal 25mm deep fan mounted where the old fan/shroud was. It's not that hard, and I ended up sealing the fan to the back of the unit using some strips of tape. It's not going to win any beauty pageants but it keeps the drives cool. Also, because the original fan was plugged into the drive enclosure and not the motherboard, I had no feedback that it had died. New fan is PWM, plugged into the mobo and monitored via IPMI. There's certainly cheaper options out there, but if you bought the Silverstone case, you owe it to yourself to get the matching drive bay enclosure.

I purchased a SilverStone RM41-H08 4U that came with one of these hard drive enclosures included on the right side. The case was set up for 5.25" drives on the left side, but somewhat easily replaceable with a 3.5' drive bay, so I purchase another enclosure to have 10 available, hot swap, no sled, externally available drives. The drive enclosure has a switch to set the built in fan to high or low. I found low to be quite adequate for my needs, but the second drive enclosure, the one I bought separately would not go to low. The switch moved, but stayed at high. The fan running on high is rather loud. I returned it and got a working model, I thought. I finished the build, racked the unit and powered it up. Both enclosures were running at high. On further inspection the switches do not work on either. The switch will move but the fan stays on high. It's annoying but, I decided to not attempt to remedy the situation and live with the extra noise and power consumption. For those interested (or doing keyword search) this is TrueNAS server with (2) 2.5' SSD boot drives (internal) and (10) 3.5' spinning rust storage drives (external)

Bought 2 of these for a Silverstone 4U Rackmount case. It installed very easily, and the build quality seems solid. It's nice to be able to open a bay, pop a drive in and close the bay without having the mount the drive in a tray. The only downside really is the price. For that cost of 1 of these I could have bought 2 Rosewill or other cheap brand. But these certainty seem to be worth the extra money.

I use 2 of these in my NAS server running Unraid. I’ve been experiencing intermittent read errors on any disk placed in one of the slots (the 2nd from the left). I’ve troubleshooted with different cables and drives, but it’s clear that the issue lies with this backplane. Disappointing, as it’s an expensive product for home users. I would not recommend or buy again.

Overall, this is a solid enclosure but it leaves a few improvements desired. The front drive doors are OK, so I'm not sure what other reviews are complaining about. Are you slamming the drives into the enclosure? I hope not, because this is plastic and you should take care in inserting your drives to meet the SATA connectors in the back. Just take your time and pay attention. Now, the fan is garbage. G A R B A G E. I pulled it from the enclosure and swapped it for an Arctic PWM fan which now is controlled by my board based on the HDD temps. Low HDD temps? Low fan speed and low noise. However, getting a slightly larger fan to fit may require a dremel and/or drill bit to enlarge the screw holes on your fan shroud, but after you get the screws to fit, all is well. Dont worry about damaging your fan since the fan case will fit back over whichever fan you reinstall, for a nicer OEM look. My fan barely hums along when all is well. Air flow is adequate enough for when your drives get hot and I can feel the hot air flow when the fan is running at 2400 rpm. I push air inside out to balance my overall case flow but YMMV.

used this to build a small NAS server using an old Cooler Master case. the fan could be better but it's in a separate room so not a big deal. might need to do some small modifications to the case you want to use, but it does fit nicely into 3 5.25 bays.

I've been using Supermicro CSE-M35Ts but it seems they are discontinued. If you can find those at a decent price, just buy those with some quiet slim fans and make your life easy. As for this, well its from Silverstone, so one might imagine it would come with a Silverstone fan, preferably a quiet one, right? Nope, some YLTC slim 80mm fan that is 1990s loud. Ok, so they cut corners on the fan, no biggie, fan replacement is par for the course anyway and this is Silverstone, they are a case modding friendly kind of company, this should be easy. Nope. 1) Fan is mounted on cheap plastic screw stands that split in half when you look at it hard (I only have 2 left after trying to replace the fan). 2) The screw/screw hole is non-standard, nothing in my hoard of thousands of computer screws matches it AND the head of the screw is too small to swap the included shroud with a fan grill. 3) The connector for the fan is one of those old 3-pin audio cables that you used to use to connect your CD-rom drive to the motherboard/sound card and there is no room around the connector to use a 4 pin instead (in case you had a dozen of those lying around like I did). So that was an incredibly annoying nightmare and, again, just cheap and low quality throughout. However, that was my struggle like 4-5 months ago. I came back to write this review because, like the other reviewer Kyle Thomas, the plastic ejection thing has broke. Obviously, my advice here is to run far away from this piece of cheap, plasticky garbage. I'm going to give the Istar or Norco a try next.

I had an issue with SATA TOSHIBA 18TB and 16TB not being able to detect them, only 4 ports were detected.