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Supermicro X8SIL-F Motherboard Review

Posted on 20 May 2010. Tags: business storage, DDR3, dual nic, enormous benefit, eon zfs storage, expansion card, expansion slots, file server, flash drive, freenas, home server, home servers, htpc, intel xeon, internal usb header, motherboard, nics, Norco, openfiler, overclocking board, realtek nic, Review, server test, server v2, small business servers, storage drive, storage servers, Supermicro, Supermicro x8sil-f, test configuration, unraid, usb thumb drive, vail, virtual machine, WHS, Windows Home Server, windows home server v2 vail, x8sil-f, X8SIL-F v1.02

The Supermicro X8SIL-F motherboard is an excellent board for home and small business servers. When building a file server built upon Windows Home Server (V1 or V2 Vail) or another open source NAS project such as FreeNAS, Openfiler, EON ZFS storage, the Supermicro has a feature set that differentiates itself from both AMD and Intel based consumer-level motherboards. Compatibility with those operating systems and virtualization platforms such as Microsoft’s Hyper-V make the X8SIL-F a strong contender for a DIY storage or virtual machine server.

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