As i have explained before, you need to add more hardware to AVOTON to have a chance of competing against A1100 and that will make AVOTON TCO worse.
So does the A1100, no USB? wtf, also the number of SATA is really 14? why the Seattle reference platform has only 8?
The 8 PCI-E lines is a BAD idea, you already need to waste 2 of them on a USB controller and Aspeed chip.
anyway you can check here:
http://www.newegg.com/SuperMicro-Server-Motherboards/BrandSubCat/ID-1655-302
Must Avoton boards are sub-300, Xeon-D starts at 490...
If A1100 boards are really $300 to $400 we have a problem here, because Avoton retains its price/perf/features.
So what whould be the best use for A1100? And thats considering Avoton is on its way out.
Also someone has info on the features of the SATA controller on A1100? It has SAS? it has HW raid?