Super Micro X10SLH-N6-ST031 Review. How well can the 10GBe ports be used as a router?
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- Today I take a look at the X10SLH-N6-ST031, a Super Micro C226 LGA 1150 board with 6 10GBe Ports built into the board. In this video I take a look at how well it works as a router along with other aspects like power consumption. I also take a look at a 1u case designed for this board.
Thanks to Unix Surplus for providing this board for this video. Check them out here: unixsurplus.com/
Here is the page for the board that was featured in this video: unixsurplus.com/supermicro-x1...
00:00 Intro
00:38 Motherboard tour
05:30 Super Micro 1u Case Overview
07:16 Power Consumption
09:42 Routing Performance
11:26 Conclusion 
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Been running this setup with pfsense for about 3 years now. Was able to get this 1u for about $150 shipped on eBay back then - looks like prices have actually increased. I put some noctua inline silencers on the stock fans and noise is way down and temps are fine. Been working well. Much better wireguard speeds than other less powerful systems.
Thanks for all of your kickass videos!
I recently purchased this board and it works pretty well as a firewall/router. I'm using it with dual WAN, and it's connected to two switches. It operates at 10GB, and I consistently achieve a little over 9Gbps maximum throughput.
I use this board as a router and I have some tips. Firstly, the X10SLH-LN6TF seems to be identical and the manual for this can be found ( try Manualslib ). Secondly, it fits fine in a cheap mATX tower - AeroCool CS-1103 which takes a standard ATX PSU. Thirdly, I use the E3-1230L v3 CPU with a standard screw down 1150 cooler to keep the power down without any apparent loss of performance. I have 500 Gbps Internet.
The only other cooling is the exhaust fan supplied with the case so its pretty quiet. I use an NVME drive in the x4 slot and 16GB of PC3-12800E. This leaves the x8 slot for another X540 if I need any expansion.
Hope this is useful to someone.
Thank you for another great video! I very much appreciate the content you make and your insights into the technology! I make an effort to watch every video you've uploaded.
I look forward to learning from your next video!
Interesting option. Great video
Excelente review, estou pensando em comprar um sistema com essa MoBo. Seu review me ajudou bastante. Thanks a lot from Brasil.
Nice video! I’m always interested in VPN performance for ChaCha20 and AES-256-GCM, as I use that a lot for my pfsense setup.
I just made a proxmox pfsense build and that was one of my main things I was looking for
It's nice when power consumption is no issue, but when using this as a 10G router, the CPU usage and power consumption will be through the roof since it doesn't have any dedicated network switching chipset, so all traffic needs to go through the CPU.
Good stuff. Always look forward to your new videos.
Have you ever considered a power-efficient Ceph cluster build? Would love to have three systems which sip power; can talk across a 10g storage network; but only gigabit (or better) for normal traffic. Would also love to be able to use SAS drives.
Glad you like the video. That's a interesting idea and I work on finding hardware and creating the setup sometime in the future. I love working with clustered hardware but want to try to do it right for a video.
Thank you for presenting it. And that website. I guess it's U.S. based.
Hi. I have also purchased this board a few days ago.
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I need a newer Bios version but cannot found it on internet, the installed version in my board is 3.0.
ruclips.net/video/dV84wyk7iis/видео.html You're right 80-100W is fine for a high power router, I wanted to also note that server PSUs are going to trade off power consumption for dependability as it relates to high value storage caps and tolerant power delivery vs consumer PSUs. That should be noted as part of the total package, I only wanted to bring this up because you took the effort to compare the server PSU vs consumer.
Would you by any chance be able to provide the model number for the PCI riser card? I got two of those servers several months ago and have been having a hard time finding something that works there. Thanks in advance!
This board would work awesome in a Fractal Design Node 804....
i bought it barebone 9 months ago, added an i5 4570T and 16GB ram and installed opnsense, it works great, but as you mentioned, it doesnt support 2.5Gbps nor 5Gbps, so im not able to take full benefits from it, but its a nice opcion for a cheap server-grade 1u router, now im planning to buy an i7 4785T to double my cores and threads
I'd also look at the xeon e3 options for CPUs if you haven't already as they may be cheaper on the used market.
Hi Branson I would like to see avideo with proxmox and teh new feature netbox powerdns
if it was with ecc reg memory support, will be a good proxmox host....
Agree. The 32GB of ram and 4 cores really limits the platform for virtualization uses.
Nice board and presentation, but power consumption is too high for me as retail user.
It's a shame really that PCIe switches never got standartized to become plug-in expansion cards.
What cpu has and how many cores?
This board takes haswell CPUs like the e3 1240 v3 I think I used in this video. There is a max of 4 cores for CPUs on this socket.
Thanks!
I've played the "lets figure this board out without a manual" game before. RESPECT. I think we were at top 5% of viewers can do this.... with a manual. (Comment left mostly for youtube algo - like pressed)