As a result, many of the drives run around 65 degrees Celsius at idle (tested overnight) which is already outside of the drives’ recommended temperature range of 0-60 degrees. The body of the Silverstone DS380 has been constructed of steel, while only the front door is made of aluminum. It measures 211mm wide, 285mm tall and 360mm long, giving it a 21.6L capacity. Although this is quite large compared to eight-bay models from QNAP and Synology, keep in mind they feature custom-built motherboards that take up considerably less space.

I also added the "cardboard duct" modification that directs all injected air onto the drives and doesn't splash it into the rear, per https://blog.briancmoses.com/2017/04/creating-a-cooling-duct-for-the-silverstone-ds380.htmlPlugged the rear and side fans directly into the PSU molex connector, rather than through mainboard and rear of hard drive chassis

Where the Silverstone DS380 does excel is cooling. Whereas we are used to finding one or two exhaust fans, the DS380 has a more advanced setup. In the left side of the case there are a pair of 120mm in-take fans covered by a magnetic dust filter. Then at the rear we have a third 120mm fan serving as the case exhaust. It's a nice dust free setup that should keep the drives inside clean and cool. Cooling: 3x Internal 120mm 1200rpm 22dBA system fans are included (2x intake fans; 1x exhaust fan); Can accomodate an entry-level liquid CPU cooling system (can handle systems with CPU of 95W TDP or above); Externally removable (magnetic) filters on the top and side panels. The Silverstone DS380 has a tiny footprint of just 211 x 360 mm and is 285 mm high. This isn’t much, but it still has room for a total of 12 drives, mITX motherboard, SFF PSU and three 120mm cooling fans. The rear fan area is even placed so it can accommodate AIO liquid cooling solutions such as the Silverstone TD03 and the three included fans have a maximum noise generation of 22dBA. Cut a hole for a Noctua 40mm NF-A4x10 FLX 4500RPM Fan (for extraction) in the upper rear of the case (there is a spot for it as-is but I want to remove the metal grill and add a proper fan grill for this). This is to keep hot air from dwelling up the top (hot air rises). I'm planning to put it in parallel with the 3000 RPM Noctua 120mm NF-F12 (same voltage (12v)) but will see what happens. We were bummed to find that the drive cages are not tool-less like those now used by Synology so the user must secure each drive using four screws. While that might seem like a minor inconvenience, it gets annoying fast when swapping drives in and out.So for a test, I installed TrueNas Scale on that puppy. Created the ZFS pool via the GUI. Used SSH to install btrfs-progs, mount the BTRFS filesystem and copied all data. That was about 6 TB. Not sure how long it went but I looked at the temps in the TrueNas Scale interface and it was something between min 32°C and max 47°C over all disks. Pet Habitats and Supplies, Apparel and Leashes, Training and Behavior Aids, Toys, Aquarium Supplies such as Pumps, Filters and Lights 15 Days Returnable