This just in! - Thanks to Woofmeister for causing me to dig for info on it (his link is/was broken).
Silverstone has recently added a HDD cage to their line - the Model No. CFP51. 3dGameMan has a written review posted already. It looks like an interesting cross between the CM device module (STB-3T4-E1) and the Lian Li EX34A/B. It looks like the cage metal is very thick aluminum (Ooooh, 3mm front plate and the rest looks to be between 1 and 2mm!) and it's isolated from the case mount panels just like the CM device module. Includes a 120x25mm blue LED fan but no filter. No problem putting a real fan and filter in there though if you want. They also use plastic lock pins for mounting the fan and grille (though why a fan that is behind a bezel needs a finger guard is beyond me...) - easily replaced with rubber pins, etc. if vibration noise proves to be a problem.
. It'll nick your wallet pretty good - $43.00 is the cheapest that Froogle can find right now. But I think that the appearance, material and technical improvements over the L-L cage warrants the price. We'll have to see how it does against the CM.
Update on Silverstone HDD cage:
I got a hands-on with this and have had time to do a field-strip. Case screws are supplied for mounting drives :roll: - big demerit. Like the CM, you will either need to get proper HDD mounting screws or shim them out with washers - less than 3/16" (~5mm) of thread should go into the drive (actually case screws are safe with many of the mounting points on drives these days, but some may not be, so always allow for the exceptions as you can't depend on the booboise to check). Metal of HDD cage and mouting panels are reversed. The heavier metal should be in the cage for mass-damping effect. But the bezel is attached to the cage adding another 9 ounces. That big hunk of metal on the front makes up more than half of the bezel total weight. Perhaps that was designed as a mass-damping weight? Naaah.
. The fan is quite nice (you won't find it sold separately under the Silverstone name) but puts out nowhere near 60CFM - it does push enough to keep a stack of HDDs happy and that's about it. It was plenty quiet before, but after I removed the off-center label that SS stuck on the center (almost) of the rotating blade, it was even quieter. I could feel and hear the imbalance with the label on it.
. It looks to have a 52 ohm resistor in series with the motor so I figure it is running around an actual 8V (yup, just measured - 8V on 11.7 and 7.5 on 11(controller max). Puts out enough air to cool the HDDs but that's about it. They mount it with lock pins instead of rubber but I doubt anyone would notice the diff. (but I'll be using the rubber pins, if I decide to use it since I have 'em. It's frame is clear plastic with blue LEDs - totally wasted on me and in my case. W/o visibility from the front (and nearly as little from the rear with a stack of HDDs in it) the light will hardly be noticed. One of their plain ones would have done just as well. But it is quiet and the LED leads can be cut easily enough. Long lead too at over 18".
. A full review will pop up somewhere soon.
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I bought a new Coolermaster Stacker Device Module from jab-tech.com and it arrived today. As soon as I hefted the box, I knew something had changed... So I played with it a while and added some new remarks to my review of an original version here.
The main difference is that the metal is MUCH thinner. This one weighs about 1.5 pounds without the fan and grille. None of the negatives I noted in my earlier review have been addressed. If you have some old SCSI drives that are vibrating your whole case, then try to get an original version. The current rev. damps the "thrumm" from my scuzzies just a bit better than the Lian Li EX-34B. The original made it barely noticeable thru the case frame.
Not what I expected - though I did save some on shipping...
.bh.
