Slot utilization on SuperMicro X11SCA-F motherboard?

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Based on my reading of the SM manual and diagrams, it looks like I can accommodate and best optimize interfaces speeds on the SM motherboard as follows:

  • M.2 SSD disk in M.2-M2 slot
  • 10Gb NIC in SLOT2
  • LSI HBA controller in SLOT7

Supermicro X11SCA-F board specs:

CPU SLOT4 PCI-E 3.0 x8 (IN x16) PCIe x16 Slot (PCIe 3.0 x8 link)
CPU SLOT6 PCI-E 3.0 x16 PCIe x16 Slot (PCIe 3.0 x16 link; x8 link when SLOT4 is in use)
PCH SLOT7 PCI-E 3.0 x1 PCIe x1 Slot
PCH SLOT2 PCI-E 3.0 x4 PCIe x4 Slot (shared with M.2-M1)
PCI-E_M.2-M1 PCIe M.2 M-key Socket (PCI-E 3.0 x4 [32Gb/s])
PCI-E_M.2-M2 PCIe M.2 M-key Socket (PCI-E 3.0 x4 [32Gb/s])

Am I overlooking bottlenecks with this plan?

NAS hardware and storage roles:

SuperMicro X11SCA-F motherboard
Intel Core i3-9100 CPU, 4 Cores, 3.6Ghz, up to 4.2 GHz
64GB (4x 16) of Crucial ECC DDR4-2666 RAM

8-port LSI 9300-8i controller (PCI-Express 3.0)
10Gb NIC HPE NC560SFP+ (PCIe v2.0 x8)
M.2 NVMe 1TB SSD drive (to support future VM’s)

Boot: any 100GB or similar SSD drive (on board SATA)
SLOG: Intel 320 Series 80GB SATA II MLC SSD (on board SATA)
L2ARC: PNY 500GB SATA3 SSD drive (on board SATA)
Drives: 8x 6TB Seagate Ent, 7200 RPM, 128MB Cache (LSI HBA)
Pool: (2) VDEV’s of 4 drives in raidz-2

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Yikes - sorry for the extra bold. The formatting didn’t go as intended. :sweat_smile: