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Yes, a 950/950 will easily max out the x2 slot. If you want to get the full speed out of your drive you will need the M.2 to PCIe x4 card. I used this one: https://www.amazon.com/Asus-M-2-X4-Card-flexibility/dp/B017YUCAXS

I have not noticed any thermal throttling on my 950 Pro. It will really depend on your systems airflow. If you do get thermal throttling, there are little heatsinks you can buy and stick on the 950 Pro to help cool it down.

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I use a Asus Hyper M.2 X4 Mini and it works great. Only $20.

I have this problem occasionally when trying to expand my volume sets with my 1680. The simplest solution for me, was to reboot the server, and try the volume expansion again. It never failed to expand a volume for me after a system restart. I just chalked the problem up to a bug in the gui...

Amount of advertised storage: 143TB Main File Server - Two Norco chasis built into one. (Cut the bottom out of the top 20bay chassis.) Amount of storage in the following system: 118TB (Formatted) Case: NORCO RPC-4220 (Top Case), NORCO RPC-4224 (Bottom Case) + Rackable SE3016 + Rackable SE3016...

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Which seller did you buy from? I've been looking at getting another one of these.

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Here is a picture of the enclosure plugged into the external port of my Areca ARC-1680IX. All the sensors appear to be working just fine. I'm planning on testing some drives here in a bit.

If anybody is looking for a cheap SFF-8088-SFF-8088 cable here you go. http://www.ebay.com/itm/molex-Supermicro-Cable-CBL-0166L-new-/160697118601?_trksid=p5197.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D4%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D6030943376412025717

I see, Do I have to use a local mail server, or can I use something like gmail? And if it has to be local, do you have one you recommend for Windows Server 08?

Anybody have any clues on how to use the email notifications for raid status and whatnot. I can't figure out what sort of info I need to put in the email setup.

Right now its a 20 drive Raid6 with the one hotspare just to test the expander I added. I'm going to try stress testing it with a 7x 1TB drives I have laying around to see if it stays stable. I would prefer to stick with one giant raid6 because it's easier, but with the way 3TB drives are...

Thanks for the reply PigLover. My HP card seems to be working fine on the internal ports, no hangups or issues with it detecting drives like others have reported. Maybe i'm just lucky? Does that mean i'm good to go?

Main File Server - Two Norco cases built into one. Amount of storage in the following system: 32.7TB Case: NORCO RPC-4220 (Top Case), NORCO RPC-4224 (Bottom Case) PSU: Corsair 950w (Top Case), Corsair 850w (Bottom Case) CPU: Intel Quad Core Xeon X3330 Motherboard: Asus P5BV-M RAM: 8GB (4x2GB)...

Amount of total storage: 124.8TB - All my numbers are actual formatted size. Main File Server - Two Norco cases built into one. Amount of storage in the following system: 90.8TB Case: NORCO RPC-4220 (Top Case), NORCO RPC-4224 (Bottom Case) + Rackable SE3016 PSU: Corsair 950w (Top Case)...