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some answers:

1) the motherboard is socket 2011 (SUPERMICRO MBD-X10DRI Extended ATX Server Motherboard Dual LGA 2011 R3 Intel C612) while cpu is 2011-3 (Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2620 v3).

Motherboard description talks about 2011 however it mentions that it supports E5V3 Xeon CPU's (which are 2011-3).
The sockets 2011 and 2011-v3 are not compatible so the MB description is confusing.
I would ask newegg to clarify or would do a more google search to find out from supermicro.

2) regarding the SAS HDD, i'm not 100% sure but i believe you will not be able to connect it to that motherboard.
Unless you buy a controller for SAS and also the mobo chipset should support the SAS drives. Do more digging in this direction.

3) Initially i...
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some answers:

1) the motherboard is socket 2011 (SUPERMICRO MBD-X10DRI Extended ATX Server Motherboard Dual LGA 2011 R3 Intel C612) while cpu is 2011-3 (Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2620 v3).

Motherboard description talks about 2011 however it mentions that it supports E5V3 Xeon CPU's (which are 2011-3).
The sockets 2011 and 2011-v3 are not compatible so the MB description is confusing.
I would ask newegg to clarify or would do a more google search to find out from supermicro.

2) regarding the SAS HDD, i'm not 100% sure but i believe you will not be able to connect it to that motherboard.
Unless you buy a controller for SAS and also the mobo chipset should support the SAS drives. Do more digging in this direction.

3) Initially i thought that the PSU is small, but then I reconsidered because i don't know:
- how many drives will you use? (8?)
- maybe expansion cards? (e.g. multiple GPU's and of what model?)

4) didn't check if motherboard has in the qvl that particular ram. Worth to check it and better stick with RAM sticks that are on that list :) From the specs it's ok (ddr4, ecc)

5) cooler is fine, compatible for both 2011 and 2011-3.

6) really not familiar with the power supply compatibility for these server grade cases - does it fit regular PSU?

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Thanks for the great answer. I was going to go with the SuperMicro due to the MOBO RAID , but it does seem that I will need to go with some sort of RAID controller.

And in that case this MOBO should work - http://

Now I have to do some research on RAID controllers. Any suggestions?
 
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no suggestion but i'm also interested into something that is doing real raid instead of the fake raid that is present in the current consumer grade motherboards.
so hopefully somebody else can help on this subject.
-s
 
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asus mobo - pls check what optional mean:

ASUS PIKE II 3008 8-port SAS HBA card (Optional)
ASUS PIKE II 3108 8-port SAS HW RAID card(Optional)

I'm mostly sure that it's not included in the box, but you have to buy it separately and might be expensive as hell.

the adaptec card is indeed real raid so it's a good option to.
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i'm sorry but I cannot compare them properly. Probably you like the second one from asus because of the price and also that it's made specifically for that Asus motherboard. Adaptect allows for 256 drives with expanders, the asus allows for 8 maximum. If your system is "closed" after you build it, therefore no intention to upgrade it later in terms of drives, then no point to buy the expensive card.

Also, the asus card might be compatible only with those motherboard models, whereas adaptec should have more compatibility (e.g. reuse)

good luck,
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