Difference between supermicro X9DA and X9DR series (dual 2011)

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Can someone briefly explain to me the difference between X9DA and X9DR series? I'm planning to get a pair of E5-2665s and not sure which series of these motherboards to use

From what I understand the X9DA is more suited for a workstation and the X9DR is for servers? But could anyone help elaborate on why that is?
 
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DR-Board have "Integrated IPMI 2.0 and KVM with Dedicated LAN" That's what you need to remote operate a server in a data center over the network and without a keyboard attached to it. Useless for a workstation! The DA-Board has additional USB3.0 ports - very useful for workstations, useless for servers.
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DR-Board have "Integrated IPMI 2.0 and KVM with Dedicated LAN" That's what you need to remote operate a server in a data center over the network and without a keyboard attached to it. Useless for a workstation! The DA-Board has additional USB3.0 ports - very useful for workstations, useless for servers.
 
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And before you wast your money: there are a lot of thing to thing of, like at least four sticks of expensive ecc ram (two for each cpu bank), the E-ATX form factor, that doesn't fit in all cases and so on. On the other side, you need very up-to-date software to use all the cores. Most programs still only run on one core and the singel thread performance of those XEONs is, well, not the best.
 
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Yeah I was planning to use 8x8 gigs of 1600 ecc registered ram Rosewill Blackhawk Ultra case. Do you think it will fit in that case?

I plan to run a bunch of virtual machines on the rig all day and night, should I go with a DR or DA board or doesn't really matter for a more or less automated virtual machine rig?
 
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