Basically what the title says, I'm looking to decide between these two motherboards for my upcoming NAS build:
P10S-M-DC | Servers & Workstations | ASUS Global
X11SSH-F | Motherboards | Products - Super Micro Computer, Inc.
The issue I have with these boards is more on the amount of pci-e lanes available to each slot rather than pricing. The Asus board has 1 x8 and 3 x4 pci-e 3.0 slots whereas the supermicro board has 2 x8 and 1x4 pci-e 3.o slots.
The reason why I'm fretting about the amount of lanes available is because I don't really know if they can work in x4 slots (I've read in some instances that they can and that in others they cannot). I'm basically looking for how many SAS cards I can plug in these respective boards should I need it.
Now I'm also aware that if I were to worry about pci-e slots at all, I should probably stick to a C612/older based build, but for now that's just too expensive.
Thank you in advance for your advice.
P10S-M-DC | Servers & Workstations | ASUS Global
X11SSH-F | Motherboards | Products - Super Micro Computer, Inc.
The issue I have with these boards is more on the amount of pci-e lanes available to each slot rather than pricing. The Asus board has 1 x8 and 3 x4 pci-e 3.0 slots whereas the supermicro board has 2 x8 and 1x4 pci-e 3.o slots.
The reason why I'm fretting about the amount of lanes available is because I don't really know if they can work in x4 slots (I've read in some instances that they can and that in others they cannot). I'm basically looking for how many SAS cards I can plug in these respective boards should I need it.
Now I'm also aware that if I were to worry about pci-e slots at all, I should probably stick to a C612/older based build, but for now that's just too expensive.
Thank you in advance for your advice.