Comments on: Gigabyte MS04-CE0 Intel Xeon 6 Motherboard Shown

By: minosi

minosi — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:42:56 +0000

@Dr_b_
This board screams SOHO/Low power/Management node to me … and there 10GbE may not be needed yet would suck power even run at 1Gb.

Besides, it has enough slots to put a NIC of one’s choosing – aka certified for one’s infra. Was it a 1U-focused board, it would be a different discussion.

I would rather to have the PCIe lanes exposed as slots than for an embedded controller that may not be used due to its driver stack ..

By: Dr_b_

Dr_b_ — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 15:13:37 +0000

Weird that they went with 1Gb nics and not an intel 10Gb controller, and all the other compromises noted. Nice to see the PCIe slots though

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 07:33:43 +0000

A board of compromises.
PCI-Express 3.0 x2 is ~2 GB/s, they connect it to a 6x SATA III controller which is 6x ~550MB/s for SSDs giving 3.3 GB/s total. For HDDs it doesn’t matter, but for SSDs it definitely is a bottleneck.
M.2 slots are also x2 instead of x4. There aren’t many 5.0 enterprise M.2 drives yet, so it’s going to limit the popular 4.0/3.0 ones.
Depending on the use case it might matter or it might not.