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Review on SilverStone Technology Enclosure Internal SST FS305 12G by Jonathan Arroyo

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Annoying and poor quality, look elsewhere.

I used Supermicro CSE-M35T but it looks like they are being discontinued. If you can find them at an affordable price, just buy them with silent thin fans and make your life easier. Correctly? No, any skinny 80mm YLTC fan loud like it was in the 1990s. So they skimped on the fan, no big deal, replacing the fan is the norm anyway and this is Silverstone, they are a modding friendly company, it should be easy. no 1) The fan is mounted on cheap plastic screws that break in half upon close inspection (I only have 2 left after trying to swap out the fan). 2) The screw/screw hole is not standard, none of my thousand computer screws will fit, AND the screw head is too small to replace the included shroud with a fan grill. 3) The fan connector is one of those old 3-pin audio cables you used to connect your CD drive to your motherboard/sound card, and there's no room around the connector for a 4-pin connector (if you have one). a dozen lying around like mine). So it was an incredibly annoying nightmare and again cheap and poor quality everywhere. That was my fight though, about 4-5 months ago. I returned to write this review because, like Kyle Thomas, the plastic ejector piece broke. My advice here, of course, is to run away from this cheap plastic junk. Next time I will try Istar or Norco.

Pros
  • Built-in fan for excellent heat dissipation
Cons
  • Expandable