On day two of CES 2018, our team hit the Silverstone booth to check out the innovative company's projects and new products!
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Like the PCIe slot hotswap bay. (NCase M1 and single-slot GPU owners, please note.)
Not so hot on the prototype HTPC chassis. Who has a HTPC with 10 spinning drives in it? Seems more like a server chassis, but there are lots of cheap (E)ATX cases out there if you need that much hardware.
The Flex-ATX PSU looked non-modular, so will likely be a bit of a dealbreaker for SFF use.
Not so hot on the prototype HTPC chassis. Who has a HTPC with 10 spinning drives in it? Seems more like a server chassis, but there are lots of cheap (E)ATX cases out there if you need that much hardware.
The Flex-ATX PSU looked non-modular, so will likely be a bit of a dealbreaker for SFF use.
ooh nice, an alternative to the startech one! (forgot the oem for startech)
(EDIT: oh right, addonics http://www.addonics.com/products/ad4sa354m2.php )
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"The adoption of the form factor has been slower than expected"
Yeah, especially when MXM cards cost 2x as much as their PCIe counterparts. Fix that problem and you'd get beaucoup people wanting it.
Yeah, especially when MXM cards cost 2x as much as their PCIe counterparts. Fix that problem and you'd get beaucoup people wanting it.
Sorry, no more pics. It was 10-liters too big but included due to supporting SFX PSU's
This is the only picture with the flap folded down. This is a picture of switch that prevents the front release button from allowing the front panel to fold downwards.
https://smallformfactor.net/wp-content/uploads/DSC07058-810x541.jpg
The bays were all hot-swap with the front plastic panel having a key to lock it shut.
Are the drives on removable caddies? Yes
This is the only picture with the flap folded down. This is a picture of switch that prevents the front release button from allowing the front panel to fold downwards.
https://smallformfactor.net/wp-content/uploads/DSC07058-810x541.jpg
The bays were all hot-swap with the front plastic panel having a key to lock it shut.
Are the drives on removable caddies? Yes
No and no. Sorry @Jello
That is the final spec and no larger capacity is planned as far as we've been made aware.
That is the final spec and no larger capacity is planned as far as we've been made aware.
Same here, would be a nice upgrade for a computer with no M.2 slots.
Do they have any idea when the Fanless SFX will be released, I'm chomping at the bit here.
EDIT: Also a short explination about the looming demise of micro-STX here.
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See this thread. The video linked is straight up click bait imo
https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/asrock-at-ces-2018.6323/#post-81086
To be fair, Silverstone did say that they are done promoting mSTX as they aren't seeing any sales.
They spent last year helping to push it into the eyes of consumers and this year they plan to abandon that format.
This includes EOLing both mSTX chassis in their lineup.
They spent last year helping to push it into the eyes of consumers and this year they plan to abandon that format.
This includes EOLing both mSTX chassis in their lineup.
They woud get more sales if they offered a pre-built with their case. Maybe add some discount like 10-50$ vs building your own and they would get at least some procentage of the mSTX sales.
ASRock's case is pretty good and well build overall, so i dont think anyone sees the case as "must replace when buy". It is sturdy, nice and subtile looking, offers good storage and cooler support.
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Maybe. I'd make the case that they spent the last year demoing two prototype cases that wernt (by the accounts of people who handled them) all that well built compared to ASRock's stock chassis. I'd also make the case that their efforts had absolutely nothing to do with trying to push microSTX into the hearts and minds of consumers as a platform and everything to do w/ them trying to advance their own image of being market leaders ready to jump onto anything that has even a slim chance of being the next big thing, the next multi-million cases sold. As has been said elsewhere ASRock arent selling bare boards directly to the public either so its of little wonder that Silverstone has lost all interest.
Im not going to sit here and pretend im convinced (or otherwise) that microSTX will make it for the long haul but if SFFn's own reporting is anything to go by then ASRock have been working on both AMD variations of the format and have submitted it for consideration as an actual standardised form factor, they're selling boards to system integrators as well as selling their own bare bones kits, Digital Storm are have bought at least enough of these things to make it worth Swiftech's (or whoever it was) time to dev up a custom water block for it. At least for the time being all signs point to it being a long way away from life support, weather that holds true long term remains to be seen (remember BTX, lol)
Ultimately though my problem w/ this video has nothing to do w/ any of that. Its the opinion presented as fact, assumptive thinking and the gargantuan leaps of unexplained logic (again, presented as fact) that the presenter takes that lead me to consider it to be little more than click bait. When it comes to critical thinking skills there wasn't much of any on display here, imo no one should make that same mistake and take anything presented there as gospel.
My $0.02
I agree, Silverstone seems to think they've done their best to promote the platform but with two lackluster cases and no boards in sight, there is little momentum to be had. Silverstone produces the largest SFX PSU lineup and their case lineup is lacking in SFX support too, go figure (keyword: synergy). It's a brand that's all over the place but needs to embrace other companies to make a platform succeed. MITX didn't become this big (dual-hit pun) because VIA was selling Epia boards to consumers like hotcakes. SFX didn't become a success because Silverstone had a few random cases that uses them.
Silverstone: less pointing fingers, more looking into mirrors.
Silverstone: less pointing fingers, more looking into mirrors.
