Silverstone TS431S 4-Bay 3,5 inch HDD Case mSAS (8088) - black [SST-TS431S ]

Thus HDDs get a noble aluminum housing with steel base and aluminum front door that is not only distinguished by look and feel. The drive change is very simple too. For this purpose, the front door is simply opened up and the slots are provided in hot-swap manner with the corresponding plates. The slots are installed horizontally, the headlights Drives from my practical printing mechanism and under it there is a control panel with on / off button.

The status LEDs are mounted above and show next to the on state also blue light per inserted disk and red light when accessing one of the disks. Active cooling of the drives is provided by a 60 mm fan. The connection to the PC is bundled and secured via a mini-SAS interface with SFF-8088 connectors, including the PC, of course, must have a corresponding external SAS port with SFF-8088 connector. This is z. B. with special RAID controller cards of the case, which then usually have an "e" for "external" at the end of the part number.

The power supply is independent of the enclosed power cord. The TS431S is compatible with many operating systems, Microsoft Windows Max OS over to Linus. It is to note that not all operating systems cope with media 3TB or more capacity, so that if necessary correspondingly smaller drives to choose. Individual drives can be summarized in JBOD mode to a larger unit.

Note: It is imperative that the PC is a matching mini-SAS connector for SFF-8088 connector. A cable with the same connectors on both sides is included, as is a replacement cable ZUSA-163 found in Caseking range.

Technical Details:

     Dimensions: 187 x 130 x 266 mm (W x H x D)
     Material: aluminum, steel
     Color: Black
     Drive slots: 4x 3.5 inch SATA / ATA (hot swapping)
     Maximum drive capacity: 4x 4 TB (12 TB max.)
     connection:
     1x external Mini-SAS (SFF-8088)
     Cooling: active (1x 60 mm fan)
     Compatibility: Windows 7, Vista, XP; Mac OS 10.x; Linux Kernel 2.6.31
     Scope of delivery:
     TS-431S drive enclosure
     1x external mini-SAS cable (SFF-8088)
     1x power cable
     User's Manual