Its a custom pcb and it draws power directly from the power supply unit.
What i did was buy a normal usb hub, throw away the pcb inside and create my custom pcb.

You can buy the pcb at Jalan Pasar, its a large piece of plastic wafer with lots of holes, it is lined with copper on one side, you have to cut it to the correct size. Maybe i can upload the picture of it later.

I included LED circuits on it as well, that's why it glows on the side.

probably u could create a HOWTO / guide to custom make one ^^v
that would be superbly helpful in a way hehe

so u use and mod the usb cable for the 4pin 12v supply from psu instead of vbus, d-, d+, gnd. good idea, but do the cable hold the ampere from fans ?

I did not take much photos of my work in progress, so its difficult to make a guide...unless i buy another usb hub to demonstrate.
But i do have the photo of the completed unit..nothing much to see but on the other side, its just wires connecting the usb ports in parallel.

The usb specification allows up to 1Amp of power to be transmitted over the usb cables, the scythe fans takes less then 0.1amp so it was not an issue.
I tried connecting it to a hardisk, it did not work..... not enough power.

The things you need to take note is to know which pins in the port corresponds to which colour of the cables and also make sure how much power your device draw before connecting it.

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This post has been edited by DigestNeko: May 5 2011, 05:26 PM

ermm i just bought rv01 casing, there are 6 drive bays but the screws provided doesnt seem enough

is those screw purchasable at hardware stores?

@DigestNeko

thanx for showing haha

Nice.. Mind to show the schematic of the hub?
Pretty sure I can try to create one.

I just migrated my machine to the rv03.

The design looks to have been inspired by art deco architecture, and I especially like the owl's face on the top of the front facade (the power and reset switches are the eyes).

However the finishing is awful, and the overall build quality to be really inferior to what Silverstone has been producing previously. Most of the plastic used is very soft and too easily breakable (think china pirated ten dollar model kits). You find better quality plastic in sub RM100 cases. When removing parts from the front panel area during installation, pieces broke itself.

The 'tool-less' locks for the drive bays are made of brittle plastic. I've broken one at the shop when checking out the case. The design of the locks doesnt actually lock any drives or drive trays so you still need screws.

The air filters nettings have such large holes, the only things it will filter are mosquitoes. Forget it if you think it'll filter dusts. And the magnetized filters at the bottom of the case keep falling off because the plastic frames are badly deformed due to the cheap materials used.

The front bay covers do not align properly. The drive bay cage with the fan attachment is very badly thought out. You have to be very careful not to let any hdd installed tray slip off the table when trying to rejoin the parts.

Compared to the RV02 this one's overpriced due to it's bad bad choice of materials and build quality.

Buy only if you need to install 9 hdd! You can't really put the 10th one in because you'll need the space for cable management.

I can't fault the stainless steel parts of the case though. But that only makes up half of the case.




PS: I hated the gold/champagne trims so I dug them out and had them sprayed black.
The transparent mesh shows off the hdd cage fan. Rather spoils the look aint it?

This post has been edited by choen: May 9 2011, 10:48 PM

And here I am about to buy that said case tomorrow.

You just saved my wallet. I'll stick with my RV02 for now.

hahariz: Go check it out and make the comparison yourself.

Don't just take my word for it.

I actually made some research myself. Definitely not liking the drive bays design. As for the magnetic filter, it seems like a poor design they adopt from FT03. It's the cheap plastic material for the HDD that you mentioned which killed my intention to buy it.

Seems like Silverstone is getting sloppy now.

my first impression: "wow that's ugly" and plastic hunk of junk

Yes me too. But i also see a potential for modifications. Or in this case, renovation.b

how to remove the cp05 thats comes with rv01?

This post has been edited by cent88: May 18 2011, 02:48 AM

^dust, health hazard already. need to clean more frequently i guess

High rpm, 1month!
Low rpm, 3months.

This post has been edited by cent88: May 18 2011, 02:56 PM

My room is so dusty it's not even funny. It's as if I'm living in the middle of desert or something.

Although my dust filter never get as thick as cent88's, but the dust still manage to get inside of my RV02.

SilverStone FT03