Silverstone DS380 NAS Chassis Review

Test System

The system is all built and ready to boot up. It is time to get some numbers, we all love numbers. We got a massive amount of hard drives, a heavy overclocked processor, and a RAID controller that all consumer quite a bit of power and generate even more heat. The Silverstone DS380 has three 120mm fans built-in and the airflow is further aided by the CPU cooler, a highly effective little piece of technology from Noctua.

The first thing we’ll be looking at is the power consumption. this is purely out of curiosity on how much a system like this draws as it doesn’t really have anything to do with the chassis. I have the system running through my power meter and will be recording the maximum power draw as well as usage and idle figures. These recordings have been made after a continues power-on cycle of 25hours.

The temperature is another thing we’d like to keep an eye on. Luckily all these hard drives report their temperature through S.M.A.R.T so we can easy get those. The same goes for our motherboard and CPU temperatures as they are default sensors. The operating system of choice doesn’t really matter here, but I picked windows for the easiest access to sensor-software.

Neither the case fans nor the CPU cooler is audible in this build, any noise heard will come hard drives. The airflow and temperatures can probably be brought further down with careful selected aftermarket fans, but it is in no way needed as the included fans do a great job and are barely audible.