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    Is this supermicro backplane supports over 2 tb drives

    Not sure why you are concerned about the backplane at all. The only part that matters is if the raid/hba card supports it.
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    Z77 with PCIe to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter and Samsung 950 Pro

    It sounds like a horrible idea. That slot is a pcie v2.0 slot, max at x4, but defaults to x1. The other 3 pcie v2.0 x1 slots eat those x4 lanes, leaving only x1 left.
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    What IS a backup

    A backup is something that decreases single point of risk. Having your backup on the same system as your primary data, is normally a major issue, due to common faults of power supplies, electrical, disk failures, admin mistakes. Having a seperate system, can limit you to common building...
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    CRC Error Count

    Current pending sectors, WILL get reallocated when written to. If you don't write to it, and it gets a successful read of it, it may mark it as no longer pending, or it may reallocate it. Depends on the drives firmware. This is the only time I have ever seen a Current Pending Sector go...
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    CRC Error Count

    I failed to see what I said was wrong. ECC error, it read the disk fine, with small amount of corruption. If the read was worse, could be alignment issue or worse, the disk was not read fine, it is having major issues.
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    CRC Error Count

    The ECC corrected won't cause pending or offline uncorrectable to go up, They are different. ECC corrected is a disk it read fine, but some data was damaged. offline uncorrectable, is a sector it has had to retry reading many many times, and is too damaged for ECC to fix it. current pending...
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    Change from 512 byte sectors to 4k size?

    Since this is not about drives, but about ntfs cluster size. I recommend always use default (4k) setting for ntfs os drives, there are a lot of ntfs features that require the default setting, and that get disabled if it is changed. If your formatting your disk for non-os usage, then it...
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    CRC Error Count

    Those are not cable errors, or even CRC errors. Those are blocks of data it read from the disk, that did not pass the checks that it was valid, but the ECC infomation *corrected* it, without any problem. This could happen for any number of reasons, disk was bumped while it was writing...
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    Change from 512 byte sectors to 4k size?

    This only affects drives that are 4k native. These drives, even today, are rare. The 4k drives you will be finding are 4k with 512 emulation, some call them 512e. There is no change needed to make these drives work, just copy everything over. To make them work optimally, you should 4k...
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    Backblaze HD Reliability Stats Q3 2015

    You are also looking at the report different from how most people here are. Backblaze looks at it as,cost of drive vs lifetime. They have the man power and time to replace and monitor failed drives. Most people here, they don't want to bother replacing a drive or two, every year, as some...
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    Confused by zfs pool size after creation

    Seems high to me, I would expect zfs list for your config to claim 29.1tb available. If you used 512sector disks, and not 4k, then 36.3tb
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    SATA 3Gb/s vs 6gb/s cable - any performance differences for modern SSDs?

    SATA only used one cable spec though 6G, and uses a new cable for 12G. If you notice a differences, your cable didn't meet specs to start with, and if you look at the drive/hba stats (smart info will tell you too), it will say how many errors you had on the cable, so you know it is the problem.
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    Norco RPC-431 Case - anyone have?

    a 1u heatsink with fan, is going cool a lot better than that 2u heatsink without a fan. I'm not sure what kind of fans you currently have on the case, but the rpc-431 looks like it will have better fans to do the job of getting air into the case.
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    Norco RPC-431 Case - anyone have?

    It appears it will just fit a 2u heatsink, and your current ones look to be just under 2u size. Worst case you swap out for 1u heatsinks. Sadly there is no manual for the case :(
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    Advice - What do I need to do/build to keep my data safe?

    Earthquake proof? flood? meteor strike? It is rather expensive to attempt to protect against all things at one location, it is hundreds of times cheaper to build in two or three locations.
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