Thanks. If it's not, I'll call in to the support line to complain or at least have them correct the datasheet. In any case, four will suffice, but more would be better.
I guess when I said "home use" I was understating what I was going to be using it for. I've got five computers. Two are being used as KVM nodes with nvidia cuda capable video cards to be later used for experimentation. Then the other three are filled with hard drives. One will be used as the main node using mdadm to raid the drives together and share LVM slices over iscsi to the two KVM nodes.
For those not in the know, KVM is similar to ESXi. Though much more powerful being fully open source. It's certainly harder to use but works better for me.
I'll be not only using a virtualized firewall and file server on these KVM nodes, but also doing research and experimentation with honeypots and other tools to see how worms spread and talk home.
The higher speed available will be mostly used in reverting snapshots of OSes and overall a snappier use for home computers. Currently these computers have many network cards connecting to eachother and work fairly well this way. Even if I don't get to bond all of them I'll still be able to do more with vlans and manage/monitor everything a whole lot easier.
I'll likely post back in about a week or so with whether it has support for the advertised 8 or only 4.
