@Tom_
nope, no drives attached, it's getting even better/worse: they even
disabled the Marvell ports... same result - because you can't cut off the PCIe-Switch. That very switch wouldn't be necessary if they had used Atoms integrated GBE-Controller; this way the board has one PCIe device too much to talk to the Atom-CPU and the Switch jumps in place. Which kind of leads us back to what
@Ericloewe said: they're still learning how to build server boards.
The article then refers to the Supermicro board which they have tested in 2013 (2013/23).
@cyberjock
nah.. unfortunately, it's pay for the paper or pay for the pdf (1,50 EUR,
http://www.heise.de/artikel-archiv/ct/2014/01/056_Serverboard)