This is perhaps an unreasonably specific question.... but I am at my wit's end, and any help will be greatly appreciated.
I committed to dumping Server Essentials 2016 for TrueNAS a few months ago. Server Essentials backup is a nightmare, and overall it's a bit like using a sledgehammer to kill a fly. I picked up an Asus Z9PA-U8, XEON E5-2697 v2, and 128Gb of Micron MT36KSF2G72PZ-1G6 (8X16Gb sticks), all at pretty decent prices on eBay.
After multiple rounds with Asus support we have determined that the MB is defective (it won't post... stalls at Q-code b7, which deals with NVRAM).
The Seller has refunded the full price, but I am now faced with finding a new LGA2011 MB compatible with the RDIMMs and CPU I already have.
I am looking at a SuperMicro X9SRA, but for the life of me, I can't determine if the Micron RDIMMs I have are compatible with any certainty. I "think" they are: the board supports 1600 ECC DDR3 SDRAM 72-bit, 240-pin DIMMs... the Micron sticks I have already qualify there, but things like Depth, Width, and Rank leave my eyes glazed over, and it is in these specs that I can't find any way to compare apples to apples. I have tried the MICRON compatibility tool, but it wasn't much help.
For obvious reasons, I'd rather not receive the X9SRA and then learn that I have to go out and buy yet more RAM.
Is this likely to be a problem, or am I being excessively paranoid?
I committed to dumping Server Essentials 2016 for TrueNAS a few months ago. Server Essentials backup is a nightmare, and overall it's a bit like using a sledgehammer to kill a fly. I picked up an Asus Z9PA-U8, XEON E5-2697 v2, and 128Gb of Micron MT36KSF2G72PZ-1G6 (8X16Gb sticks), all at pretty decent prices on eBay.
After multiple rounds with Asus support we have determined that the MB is defective (it won't post... stalls at Q-code b7, which deals with NVRAM).
The Seller has refunded the full price, but I am now faced with finding a new LGA2011 MB compatible with the RDIMMs and CPU I already have.
I am looking at a SuperMicro X9SRA, but for the life of me, I can't determine if the Micron RDIMMs I have are compatible with any certainty. I "think" they are: the board supports 1600 ECC DDR3 SDRAM 72-bit, 240-pin DIMMs... the Micron sticks I have already qualify there, but things like Depth, Width, and Rank leave my eyes glazed over, and it is in these specs that I can't find any way to compare apples to apples. I have tried the MICRON compatibility tool, but it wasn't much help.
For obvious reasons, I'd rather not receive the X9SRA and then learn that I have to go out and buy yet more RAM.
Is this likely to be a problem, or am I being excessively paranoid?
