supermicro X8SI6-F discontinued?

[drake3]

I ordered two of these boards a week apart. The first one came in after a week. My channel reseller were showing them out of stock. The second one is still back ordered and I see newegg has deactivated them from their site.

SM still lists them on their website. Have they been discontinued?

 

[PigLover]

Seems highly unlikely that they would have discontinued it. The entire X8SIx-x series is essentially the same platform with different options, and the x34xx Xeons are still considered active products. SuperMicro usually guarantees supply for their OEM customers for 3-4 years from manufacture start. Can't see it being EOL'd this early.

Probably just a supply issue. It will clear up soon. Newegg "deactivates" on supply chain gaps, so that is not an indicator (yet).

 

[drake3]

Whew... That makes me feel better. I was hoping I could get one of these boards for a new server at home instead of having to go and buy an alternative and then have to shell out for an LSI SAS2008 controller separately.

Glad to know - Thanks.

 

[Patrick]

Asked Supermicro, word is the X8SI6-F is not discontinued. Seems like a supply issue.

 

[BigP]

I received mine from Provantage (said it was a special order or something silly) in about 7 business days. (End of Feb 2011)

 

[odditory]

^ Yes all Provantage really does is drop ships from distributors like Ingram Micro, they're in New Jersey and so what they actually stock themselves is very little.

If anyone wants a newish X8SI6 send a PM, I've got too many motherboards now, from back when I couldn't decide which board to get and was buying everything. I would keep the X8SI6 were I not also swimming in SAS2008 cards.

 

[Fasterfour]

With the X8SI6 can you passthrough the LSI2008 controller with ESXi? I would assume that it is handled just like a controller in a PCIe slot. Can anyone confirm?

 

[Patrick]

That is how it is handled.