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I'd probably go with SuperMicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F. It already has 10GbE. Xeon D-1521 2x 10GbE ports onboard 6x SATA3 ports Accepts ECC RDIMM DDR4 (us

I'd probably go with SuperMicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F. It already has 10GbE. Xeon D-1521 2x 10GbE ports onboard 6x SATA3 ports Accepts ECC RDIMM DDR4 (usually cheaper than UDIMM ECC) 1x PCIe 3.0 x16 1x M.2 slot There is one on ebay right now for $230 USD shipped. Also, if you're going for lower power consumption I believe you can disable the IPMI and the 2nd 10GbE port if you don't need it. There are other ways to reduce consumption too. Turn off anything you can on the motherboard that you don't use and use higher density DIMM sticks (and less of them, if you can, e.g. 1x16GB rather than 2x8GB). Also worth paying attention to the PSU's efficiency curve and making sure your PSU is decent quality (reliable + 80+ gold).

tyingq 5y ago
>There is one on ebay right now for $230 USD shipped. Ah, yeah, that's a better deal with the 2x onboard 10Gbe.
eqvinox 5y ago
The cheap ones (including the one you mentioned) are useless because they have 10Gbase-T. You need SFP+ slots to hook up your provider's fiber. Which is kinda sad too because implementing 10Gbase-T is more expensive to implement and more expensive to run (because the 10Gb-T PHY burns power.) Sadly, there's not enough knowledge about this going around.
- deckard1 5y ago
  yes, well you can get a cheap transceiver for that. You're still going to have to talk to something else and that all goes out the window if you have existing copper in your house or need to have wired devices (NAS, smart TV, xbox, literally anything at all). You probably can't even find a wifi AP that has SFP+ that doesn't cost you 3 arms and 5 legs.
  - eqvinox 5y ago
    > yes, well you can get a cheap transceiver for that. Yes, exactly. I feel like you haven't finished your thought ;) If you have a SFP+ slot, you can plug in a cheap SFP+ 10Gbase-T transceiver. Or a SFP+ fiber transceiver. Or a DAC cable. If you have a 10Gbase-T port, you're stuck and need to buy and power a switch (or, recently, media converter) to get to anything else. And you're now wasting power for 2 10Gbase-T PHYs that are completely pointless for a very short link. Of course you'll be using a bunch of 10Gbase-T for anything where you have existing copper runs that are good enough quality to actually run 10Gbase-T. I'm just saying (1) you shouldn't be using 10Gb-T for cabling things that are next to each other, and (2) you shouldn't be running copper cabling for new installations that you're building explicitly to get 10G over.

tyingq 5y ago

>There is one on ebay right now for $230 USD shipped. Ah, yeah, that's a better deal with the 2x onboard 10Gbe.

eqvinox 5y ago

The cheap ones (including the one you mentioned) are useless because they have 10Gbase-T. You need SFP+ slots to hook up your provider's fiber. Which is kinda sad too because implementing 10Gbase-T is more expensive to implement and more expensive to run (because the 10Gb-T PHY burns power.) Sadly, there's not enough knowledge about this going around.

deckard1 5y ago
yes, well you can get a cheap transceiver for that. You're still going to have to talk to something else and that all goes out the window if you have existing copper in your house or need to have wired devices (NAS, smart TV, xbox, literally anything at all). You probably can't even find a wifi AP that has SFP+ that doesn't cost you 3 arms and 5 legs.
- eqvinox 5y ago
  > yes, well you can get a cheap transceiver for that. Yes, exactly. I feel like you haven't finished your thought ;) If you have a SFP+ slot, you can plug in a cheap SFP+ 10Gbase-T transceiver. Or a SFP+ fiber transceiver. Or a DAC cable. If you have a 10Gbase-T port, you're stuck and need to buy and power a switch (or, recently, media converter) to get to anything else. And you're now wasting power for 2 10Gbase-T PHYs that are completely pointless for a very short link. Of course you'll be using a bunch of 10Gbase-T for anything where you have existing copper runs that are good enough quality to actually run 10Gbase-T. I'm just saying (1) you shouldn't be using 10Gb-T for cabling things that are next to each other, and (2) you shouldn't be running copper cabling for new installations that you're building explicitly to get 10G over.