Ah-ha! The X10SDV-7TP4F looks promising indeed! Thank you Deslok. I think that much slower would be okay and ITX is not a requirement. In fact, I was planning on using fractal design's Define R5 case, which can handle an ATX motherboard. I'm assuming that this would include a FLEX ATX motherboard?You'll want to add a raid controller(perc H310 or similar) or move to a different board, if itx isn't a requirement one like this is a tad slower (1537 vs 1540) but offers more options in that regard Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X10SDV-7TP4F
It sounds like this board would be much better for storage capacity as well, but how does this work? I see you can have 16x SATA3 or SAS2 drives via LSI 2116, but I don't know exactly what that means? How can you actually attach 16 SATA3 drives to this board?
Thanks again,
James