Hello,
My X10SL7-F has running very well. However, I would like to plan for 10Gb networking and more disks. Unfortunately, the motherboard has very limited expansion (1x PCI-E x8 and 1x PCI-E x4). I want to add a SFP+ 10Gb card (CHELSIO T420CR) and an additional LSI raid HBA both which require an x8 slot. The X10SL7-F does not have slots to support these.
Looking at Supermicro website the two boards which look interesting are x10SRi-F and X10SRH-CLN4F. The latter is more expensive but has an onboard SAS controller. However, it does not have a PCI-E x16 slot unlike the former. The cost difference between the two is $115 USD, which is about the same as cost of IBM 1015 on ebay.
What will be a better motherboard for future expansion?
Thanks
My X10SL7-F has running very well. However, I would like to plan for 10Gb networking and more disks. Unfortunately, the motherboard has very limited expansion (1x PCI-E x8 and 1x PCI-E x4). I want to add a SFP+ 10Gb card (CHELSIO T420CR) and an additional LSI raid HBA both which require an x8 slot. The X10SL7-F does not have slots to support these.
Looking at Supermicro website the two boards which look interesting are x10SRi-F and X10SRH-CLN4F. The latter is more expensive but has an onboard SAS controller. However, it does not have a PCI-E x16 slot unlike the former. The cost difference between the two is $115 USD, which is about the same as cost of IBM 1015 on ebay.
What will be a better motherboard for future expansion?
Thanks
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