I'm installing all server hardware in my WHS 2011 and am looking at ECC RAM. Supermicro MBD-X10SLH-F-O for the mobo, Intel Xeon E3-1220V3 BX80646E31220V3 with Drivepool on three 3TB drives and a SSD for the OS.
Do I want Registered or Unbuffered RAM?
Is it ok to only have one DIMM (single 8GB stick) or should I have 2 sticks of 4GB? I do transcoding and possible VM's to justify the full 8GB (but it might also be just because that's the upper limit and I want the best performance possible).
Here is the RAM I am considering.. Kingston 8GB DDR3 1600 ECC Registered KVR16R11D8L/8
Thanks for any advice you can provide!