[More in Stock] X11SDV-4C-TP8F for $199

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/178175413833

5 available as of posting. Sold out then seller stocked a few more.

This is a pretty good deal. $200 gets you a neat flex-ATX Xeon-D board with ECC support, four 10GbE (2 SFP+, 2 10GBase-T), four 1GbE, IPMI, 12 SATA (or 4 SATA + 2 PCIe 3x4), and a couple PCIe slots, M.2 slots, and can be powered directly from 12V.

Definitely makes the X10SDVs solidly obsolete unless you absolutely need Mini-ITX. I have the 8C and 16C versions, and my only two complaints about these is that the 10GBase-T ports don't do 2.5 or 5g and that the SlimSAS ports have some limitations in NVMe mode.
 
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I measured the 8C version via a metered PDU, with a single DIMM installed, with an M.2 optane and USB drive. I got:
  • Powered off (only BMC active): 15W
  • Idle in Debian 13, no NICs active: 45-48W (~22W is the CPU)
  • Idle, with all 4 10GbE interfaces active: 53-55W
  • Same but with one CPU core fully utilized: 75-80W (~40W is the CPU)
This is with C-states working. The power draw isn't too impressive compared to a more bare system, but it's fairly good if your alternative is stuffing a lot of NICs into a system or using an HBA for more drives.

It's not a good buy if you either need more cores, or don't plan to use much of the onboard I/O and expansion.
 
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I've got one of these in a SYS-5019D, and the 4 core limitation is a real pain in the arse if you're trying to virtualize. And the 8/12/16 core boards are still commanding way too much of a premium price. Mine is just sitting on the shelf, and probably going to be reduced to a simple pfsense box.
 
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I recently bought a X10SDV-8C-LN2F for $232.19 delivered. deals pop up all the time but it takes patience and luck to snag one.
 
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Had it in my cart when it was going for $250. Thought I lost the deal when status changed to sold out.

Bought from another seller for same price with 5019 chassis.

Later in the day found the original seller listed dropped the price. Urgh!

looking for 32gb memory if anyone has some.
 
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zachj said:
Call me crazy but this seems like a better deal…4 more cores and you get a whole server.

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I think depends on use-case. Different network port make up with your post. IMO the thing that makes this OP such a "thing" is the X11SDV-4C-TP8F variant with so many ready to connect ports including 2 x SFP+ interfaces

The CPU and port makeup scream network oriented appliance - fw/router/security appliance or network edge server.
 
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zachj said:
Call me crazy but this seems like a better deal…4 more cores and you get a whole server.

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And id even consider that one bordering on expensive.

Ive grabbed almost a full rack of the sff dual psu model in the 100-175$ area.
Usualy with 4-6x 8gb and 1-2ssds.

The 2u (12lff 2sff) gigabyte board scalable version used to frequently be in the 150-200$ also, got 10ish of those.

They have been the path to free decent chenbro cases, as the boards when taken out sold for more than the full unit was.
 
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zachj said:
Call me crazy but this seems like a better deal…4 more cores and you get a whole server.

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I bought one of those Datto machines fully loaded with RAM for ~$300. I agree they are a good buy. But it was a difficult to transplant to a new chassis. With the existing bios, it wouldn't start unless it was in the original chassis. I never did figure out why. But flashing the bios and the BMC solved that issue. I now run it in a 2U chassis as a backup/warm spare Proxmox node.
 
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To be clear I’m not saying the supermicro has no use case; I’m just saying for a homelab unless your are specifically looking for a network appliance (opnsense/pfsense firewall) there are other options that I think better address storage and expansion requirements most people have.
 
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Cruzader said:
And id even consider that one bordering on expensive.

Ive grabbed almost a full rack of the sff dual psu model in the 100-175$ area.
Usualy with 4-6x 8gb and 1-2ssds.

The 2u (12lff 2sff) gigabyte board scalable version used to frequently be in the 150-200$ also, got 10ish of those.

They have been the path to free decent chenbro cases, as the boards when taken out sold for more than the full unit was.
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When did you do that?

buying in bulk usually gets a better discount and everything is incurring the AI tax right now.

I’m not saying my find is a steal. There’s one on eBay right now for less, in fact. What I’m saying is that for essentially identical money to the supermicro board one gets four more cpu cores, twice as many memory slots. The difference in price comes down entirely to a $70 case and power supply
 
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zachj said:
When did you do that?

buying in bulk usually gets a better discount and everything is incurring the AI tax right now.
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Been buying them for a while, but bought 3-4 last month and 2 this month.

None of them bought as bulk, just offers to sellers with free US shipping.
 
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zachj said:
To be clear I’m not saying the supermicro has no use case; I’m just saying for a homelab unless your are specifically looking for a network appliance (opnsense/pfsense firewall) there are other options that I think better address storage and expansion requirements most people have.
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I was contemplating buying the bare board to run truenas. Replacing current x11scl in a 4U chassis.

what other options for similar price point?
 
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mattventura said:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/178175413833

5 available as of posting. Sold out then seller stocked a few more.

This is a pretty good deal. $200 gets you a neat flex-ATX Xeon-D board with ECC support, four 10GbE (2 SFP+, 2 10GBase-T), four 1GbE, IPMI, 12 SATA (or 4 SATA + 2 PCIe 3x4), and a couple PCIe slots, M.2 slots, and can be powered directly from 12V.

Definitely makes the X10SDVs solidly obsolete unless you absolutely need Mini-ITX. I have the 8C and 16C versions, and my only two complaints about these is that the 10GBase-T ports don't do 2.5 or 5g and that the SlimSAS ports have some limitations in NVMe mode.
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What limitations do the SlimSAS ports have?
 
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