Excellent Questions
1. Newegg and Amazon are my go to guys. I've started using Amazon more often due to the Prime Subscription. However, I'm also located in CA, so newegg takes a day or 2 as well. Sometimes I order specialty parts from B&H Photo.
2. You likely won't be able to tell the difference between SSDs in the real world. Sure in synthetic benchmarks, I'm sure the Corsair Performance will do better, but in real life, little to no difference. Just like DDR3 1333 MHZ vs 1600 RAM. Nice on paper, no real life difference.
3. I like SuperMicro when it comes to server motherboards. Asus ones tend to be lower-rated. They are more workstation boards than server boards. Server boards typically have no headphone jacks or anything like that.

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