It has Marvell SAS controllers, but how about this? P9A-I/C2750/SAS/4L - Specifications
That board appears to have just about everything I'd want and I did look at it but in digging deeper I found a ton of user reviews claiming the storage controller doesn't work with any Linux based storage OS and that's a huge issue. Basically people claim ASUS completely dropped the ball on what could/should have been a fantastic storage board.
I had looked at some of the C2750 boards for my new file server build as well but had to give up and wait for the Xeon-D's as I need to be able to support a lot more than 32GB of ram as I plan on using ZFS. I didn't even look at support for the drive controllers based on that limitation.
The C2750 is capable of 64gb of ram as is the C2550, granted Xeon-D moving this to 128gb makes me look forward to replacing old E54xx servers with them to get some more powerful hyper-v nodes(at least in my use case)
For both the file server and ESX builds I needed the benefit of the 128GB capacity. When I started searching the Xeon-D's were just coming out and so I quickly skipped over the C2750/2550's for the Xeon-D's. I'm finishing the planning phase now and working on finances but should be building soon.
This is correct. The ASRock Avoton boards all supports 64GB from what I understand. It's just the boards with only 2 DIMM slots that appear limited to 32GB.
Sales at Sona told me that mid-March they would have sample X10SDV-7TP4F motherboards with 1-year warranty to sell, and that mass production motherboards would come by May.
