With the rising popularity in HTPC’s, it’s not surprising more and more people are trying to find larger storage solutions for their systems. HDTV tuners are now commonly found in home theater PC’s, and as a result, people need more disk space. The problem with HTPC systems is – limited physical expansion space for both expansion cards and hard drives. The solution? External hard drive. However, the current crop of external hard drives don’t match well in physical looks to a home theater PC. Enter SilverStone’s DS351 External SATA HD Enclosure. That’s right – this entire chassis is an external SATA HDD enclosure designed specifically to match your home theater environment. The DS351 looks as if it belongs right next to your home theater receiver. Little will anyone know that the box is actually capable of supporting up to five 3.5 inch SATA hard drives.

Here’s the complete feature list:

  • All aluminum enclosure
  • Black finish
  • Passive aluminum fin cooling system with 2 optional 80 mm fans
  • Support for five 3.5 inch drives
  • E-SATA interface utilizing Sil3132 chipset
  • 300W SFX Power Supply unit included
  • Silicon Image Sil4726 chipset
  • Supports RAID 0, 1, 10, 5 (only in windows)
  • Supports Windows XP, 2000, 2003, Mac OS 10.3 and higher, Linux
  • Weighs 5 kg
  • Measures 429 x 98 x 376 mm

The folks at ExtremeMHz have published a review of the DS351 here on their website and finds the following:

Simply put, the DS351 is a storage lovers dream and the ultimate storage solution for the HTPC enthusiast. 

Can you imagine placing five 500 GB hard drives inside this bad boy and then connecting it to your HTPC for recording televison shows? You might not have to delete content for weeks on end!

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