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so we'll begin as always with a shout-out to Squarespace thanks for allowing us to be here at CES 2016 so we're here in the Silverstone suite and we're gonna start with the cases we're gonna have to run through these pretty quickly because they've got a fair amount on display as usual so we'll start with the ml o 8 and the R v02 they actually feature the same internal structure with the main difference being the design of the front fascia so what they've done with these puppies is they've gone ahead and abandoned yes my friends they have abandoned three and a half inch drives so they're assuming you've either got an AZ or you've got a two and a half inch storage drive and that's pretty much good enough so you can fit an SF XL power supply which is kind of a Silverstone proprietary form factor but they've actually got a fair number of options they're an ITX motherboard you can fit two two and a half inch drives and there's actually huh you can tell I did another take of this video because the SSD used to be in there well there you go this is what happens when you try and install it with your offhand while you're trying to do a video there we go boom tool list two and a half inch drive installation as well as tool is five and a quarter inch drive installation with a simple little plastic snap moving around to the back there you go pretty much as big a graphics card as you could want to put in whether it's a rear blower design or an open-air design there's even a little bit of room at the top for extra heat pipes or whatever else you're into the other big one over here on the ITX well actually I guess that third one is ITX - well whatever don't stress about it so the other big one here is the RV's EO 1 - e the e is for evolution and basically what they've done here is they've again eliminated three and a half inch drive compatibility but they have added the ability to put a full sized ATX power supply in the same form factor as the original rvz oh one Ravin case so you can instill install that large graphics card you can still install dual 120 millimeter fans and I believe even our radiator up there if you're using one of their slim radiators you can still install an ITX motherboard and now you can put a full-size ATX power supply in there the other thing you give up here though is the five and a quarter inch slimline optical no longer an optics an option optical Shin which brings us over to the cs2 80 so if you guys remember we actually did a build and what would sort of be the bigger brother of this guy the ds3 80 back when we did our actually up to 12 drive mini NAS with Seagate six terabyte Enterprise drives this one still has that same kind of you know beautiful aluminum fascia kind of premium Nazz look but again they've done away with three-and-a-half inch drives entirely yes you are expected to switch to either using two and a half inch hard drives or silverstone is ready for the future when people are starting to go full SSD on their naz's so it supports up to eight of these little two and a half inch sleds it's got a cooling fan vent thing in the front with two eighty millimeter fans you go ahead and remove that and other than that it's pretty much the most bog-standard tiny little case that you could possibly imagine other than the fact that it's got that massive backplane so that you can install those drives without running any cabling up to the drives themselves so you can use the little trays so who's gonna build this I don't know but you guys can let me know in the comments if you are ready for it a two and a half inch drive based nads and if I'm completely off my rocker saying that I'm a little bit confused by this product although I do think it's very cool because I am one of the few people on earth who actually has a solid state based Nazz so thank you for checking out our coverage of Silverstone's cases and again a huge thank you to Squarespace for allowing us to be here at the show remember guys if you're building an awesome website it starts over at squarespace.com slash Linus you pick one of their beautiful templates you get going you got their tech support helping you out with it and Boop beautiful website you can find the full details at the link in the video description don't miss any of our content here at the show by being subscribed to Linus tech tips and we will see you at the next booth or perhaps this one again but with different stuff