Just put in an order for this board.
I originally ordered the supermicro MBD-X10SRI-F (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182928)
But after the 2nd MB arriving at my house with a fully bent back serial port, I got tired of trying to "work with" supermicro on their newer design of the flimsy VGA and serial ports.
So, this will be my replacement for that, should arrive on tues/wed of this coming week. I chose the 1Gb NIC card model.... Although I did sit there for a while and kept hopping back and forth. But in my case, having this at home, and all my home networking equipment is based around 1Gb (with no clear plan to upgrade anytime soon) just went with the cheaper model.
Will be running this with 32GB (4 x 8GB) crucial DDR4 ECC and an Xeon E5-2620 V3
This will be a full replacement for my system I had been running for a while now, I want to beef up everything
Currently I have a C2D 8400 on an older Supermicro board with on-board (6x ) SATA ports and 2 x 2 GB of DDR2. Works fine as just a file server, but I want to explore more into the ESXi / Unraid Docker features and need more juice.
HDD's will all be upgraded from 2 TB drives to 4 TB drives. Thinking I am going to build a 20TB array with a 500GB raptor cache. Will use the onboard (SB controller) SATA ports for ESXi itself, or any auxiliary system. Likely the onboard LSI controller I will pass through to unRAID. Then if needed I have a couple LSI 9211-8i's and 4i's at home I could use to expand if needed.
Very much looking forward to running full headless with IPMI, and just having a newer feature set.