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Confirmed that no alarms/low-rpm issues with 3 pin fans on most supermicro MBs. I think some special 1U MBs do require a minimum rpm or they go nuts.

Do you plan on populating the internal HDD tray? If so, that 80mm front fan needs to push enough air through the HDDs and cool the passive heatsink when needed. Maybe you might have issues if you have heavy transcoding on the CPU from time to time? Low-rpm noctuas may not do a good job there...

I just use a fan controller or 3-pin fans that I'm comfortable with db/airflow.

So you can go the road more travelled: SV-X10SLH-N6-ST031-Supermicro 1U Firewall Server W/ X10SLH-N Or less travelled but exciting: https://www.servethehome.com/our-switchnaserver-or-qnap-qgd-1600p-review/

And here's the ebay link: New Bulk Seagate XP1920LE30002 Nytro 5000 cMLC NVMe PCI Express 3 x4 M.2 SSD 763649094747 | eBay

Good to know.

Storage

Bummer. If the x8 slots were "open" you'd be fine though.

What about: X11SRL-F | Motherboards | Products | Super Micro Computer, Inc. Edit: Supermicro X11SRL-F - Motherboards, UP Xeon

So am not the only one looking at this...With the trend of the W-21XX and W-22XX CPUs also dropping, I might skip buying more v4s despite the prices now. From a bird's eye view, single core performance is better and so to is power consumption. You also get more pcie lanes and rdimm and lrdimms...

I see some x99 boards. Some here have been looking.

16 more in stock

So the answer is a "No" for the time being. If SR-IOV exists on the hardware, how difficult would it be to eventually enable it?:

Yes, you can try bonding.

AFAIK hw switching is supported on certain modes. LACP, I believe, does support it.