SM X11SBA vs X11SAA vs A2SAV

[Evan]

For something like a pfSense appliance
All are quad core with AES-NI (N4200 a bit faster than J3700 and I assume also faster than x5-E3940), all have dual i210 intel NIC's
X11SBA has IPMI, other 2 not.
Guessing power consumption is similar for all except IPMI add usage for the X11SBA.


Assuming the slight difference in msata,m.2 etc has no impact what is the difference, Why choose one over the other ?

 

[PigLover]

I can't see much difference at all. If you want/need choose the X11SBA. Otherwise it seems to be a push.

 

[Evan]

Seems to be a pretty big overlap in terms of product but actually I guess from an engineering point of view not much effort.

Trying to convince myself if I save anything much or just throw in another Xeon-D board which has more network ports. (I have plenty of DDR4 ram so cost for that is zero but the DDR3L for the other boards I would need to add. Costs are in the end not too different except power.

I assume the boards will idle ~10-12 watt vs ~25 watt for a Xeon-D, but I know which board is more useful

 

[Patrick]

We may review those soon. Will let you know if/ when we do.

 

[Evan]

Well I am in no rush and that's as good excuse as any to avoid spending $$

It's always a waiting game if you let it be C3000 series can't be far off either I guess now the first CPU is out.

Some of those boards with 6 x SATA even if not intel SATA would probably make decent low power storage now as wel since drives have got to big.

 

[Evan]

With the current price of non-ECC ram I think the argument for Xeon D is strong especially since I have available DDR4 ECC.
None of these boards are much cheaper than a d-1508 system.