March 8, 201016 yr OK i have given up on the Supermicro X7SPA L/H/HF ATOM . They are essentially impossible to get in the EU and even Supermicro stockists are saying they dont know when they will arrive. I understand that the board is "new" but this is now month 2 since its release and literally no ETA (2 months is an age in the life of a PC part sales cycle). So OK alternates wont be serverboards or have IPMI etc but they might have HDMI, be cheaper and actually suorcable. Any suggestions for "similar" spec boards.
March 8, 201016 yr If you still want to stick with Pineview Atom based Motherboards you might want to look at a following list: http://www.linuxtech.net/features/intel_atom_pineview_motherboards_overview.html The list contains all Pineview Atom based Motherboards that have been announced or released so far. Authors aim to keep the list complete and up-to-date. Currently Asus Hummingbird is the last item on the list. It looks like another server class Pineview Atom D510 board with IPMI. Number of SATA ports is down to 4 though. There are few boards with HDMI from Zotac and one with 6 SATA ports. Not sure if these boards will be OK for unRaid though.
March 9, 201016 yr Author Excellent link. Will keep an eye on it and post any i find for COMMON sale in the EU. If they all stay rare as hens teeth i wont be getting one as I want to the support should anything go wrong of a well known shop rather than some oddball one of purchase from a weird distributor. thanks again
March 10, 201016 yr check out some of the zotac mb. Some of them are based on the Atom. Zotac website
March 11, 201016 yr Its not atom based but I did just come across this board which has a lot of the feature (it not all) that the X7SPA does.
March 12, 201016 yr Its not atom based but I did just come across this board which has a lot of the feature (it not all) that the X7SPA does. What a sweet replacement, the review on newegg provided allot of feedback too.
March 12, 201016 yr Its not atom based but I did just come across this board which has a lot of the feature (it not all) that the X7SPA does. What a sweet replacement, the review on newegg provided allot of feedback too. Exactly my thoughts also!! 6 onboard SATA along with 2 PCIex8 and 1 PCIex4 slot. With support for the new supermicro card this board could be very very good for use in an unRAID server. Like I said earlier it is not Atom, but with an i3 530 in there the power consumption should not be to bad, plus the processor is a little more beefy if other things want to be added to unRAID later (read addons in 5.0 hopefully)!
March 12, 201016 yr Exactly my thoughts also!! 6 onboard SATA along with 2 PCIex8 and 1 PCIex4 slot. With support for the new supermicro card this board could be very very good for use in an unRAID server. Like I said earlier it is not Atom, but with an i3 530 in there the power consumption should not be to bad, plus the processor is a little more beefy if other things want to be added to unRAID later (read addons in 5.0 hopefully)! How about another beefy processor for the board - Intel® Xeon® Processor L3426 (8M Cache, 1.86 GHz) ? It looks nearly three times as expensive as i3 530. So meanwhile it is more as a mind exercise only ... One of the attracitve features to me is its Max TDP 45 W - http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=43233 vs Max TDP 73 W of i3 530 - http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=46472 But then again I am not sure if there would be any benefits of using this L3426 Xeon for unRaid appart from reduced Max TDP. ------------------------- PS: Edtit Some power saving numbers of L3426 Xeon avalable at: http://it.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3722&p=7 Is there any good reason to use Xeon family processor from unRaid (software) perspective? -------------------------
March 12, 201016 yr Exactly my thoughts also!! 6 onboard SATA along with 2 PCIex8 and 1 PCIex4 slot. With support for the new supermicro card this board could be very very good for use in an unRAID server. Like I said earlier it is not Atom, but with an i3 530 in there the power consumption should not be to bad, plus the processor is a little more beefy if other things want to be added to unRAID later (read addons in 5.0 hopefully)! Don't have any experience with Supermicro boards, but reading quite a few reviews on the net I couldn't help but notice a lot of issues that people experience with memory compatibility and IPMI connectivity. Even the review for this board on newegg mentioned issues with that. Also, I read that few of these 1156 boards from Supermicro don't work that good (or at all) with anything but Xeons (so, no i3/i5/i7). It's getting harder and harder to figure out which components to buy for my computer.
March 12, 201016 yr Don't have any experience with Supermicro boards, but reading quite a few reviews on the net I couldn't help but notice a lot of issues that people experience with memory compatibility and IPMI connectivity. Even the review for this board on newegg mentioned issues with that. Also, I read that few of these 1156 boards from Supermicro don't work that good (or at all) with anything but Xeons (so, no i3/i5/i7). This may be relative to how new the boards are. I've had supermicro boards for years. Some powered on for 2 years without issue. Once you have the right matched parts Supermicro boards are very reliable.
March 12, 201016 yr Author Its not atom based but I did just come across this board which has a lot of the feature (it not all) that the X7SPA does. Sorry for the slow reply work flooded in all of sudden. This really does look good. I think its fair to say the main driver for Atom on unRAID is power usage but I am realistic that a few more watts of power usage vs. availability and perhaps more grunt is a fair compromise. The problem is i know literally next to nothing about what CPUs use what power. My personal driver for the Atom was power but more importantly a trivial build. Gone are my days of spending hours researching each part to the Nth degree. Just for reference the X7SPA is still essentially MIA in the EU and unfortunately so is the X8SIL
March 12, 201016 yr Once you have the right matched parts Supermicro boards are very reliable. "Right matched parts" seems to be the keyword here That's why I was concerned about compatibility with memory.
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