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  1. Sales, Deals, and Trades

    A Place for Great Deals, For Sale/ For Trade, and General forums

    1. Great Deals
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      Found a great deal somewhere? Let others know!
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      Latest: 32GB DDR4-2666 RDIMMs $85 ea Patrick, Jul 20, 2019 at 8:28 PM
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    2. For Sale/ For Trade/ Want to Buy
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      Have extra stuff lying around? Looking for a system pull? This is your forum.
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      3,687
      Messages:
      24,279
      Latest: [FS][US-IA] LAB PART OUT: Supermicro 836, X9DR7-LN4F, E5-2680v2, E3-1280, 8x16GB DDR3, Intel DC SSDs BeTeP, Jul 20, 2019 at 2:11 PM
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  2. STH - Resources

    A place to discuss resources

    1. Guides
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      A place to discuss how-to guides and resources
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      Latest: Mellanox 4036 (IBS05?) gaining access. Derwood, Jun 27, 2019
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    2. STH Main Site Posts
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      RSS Feed of the STH main site posts
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      1,350
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      Latest: HPE iLO 5 Standard v Advanced Web Management Walk-through Patrick Kennedy, Jul 20, 2019 at 12:43 PM
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  3. Hardware

    A place to discuss home and small business server hardware.

    1. Processors and Motherboards
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      A place to discuss processors and motherboards for home and small business servers.
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      Latest: Xeons with an open multiplier BlackArchon, Jul 20, 2019 at 11:28 PM
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    2. RAID Controllers and Host Bus Adapters
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      A place to discuss RAID Controllers and Host Bus Adapters for home and small business servers.
      Discussions:
      1,686
      Messages:
      12,897
      Latest: Is the HP P822 RAID controller any good? BeTeP, Jul 20, 2019 at 2:07 PM
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    3. Hard Drives and Solid State Drives
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      A place to discuss hard drives and solid state drives.
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      1,311
      Messages:
      12,773
      Latest: Speedy NAS, help needed: Want 1.0GB/s vrod, Jul 20, 2019 at 11:31 PM
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    4. Networking
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      A place to discuss various elements of networking home and small business servers including internal NICs as well as switches, routers, and etc.
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      Messages:
      26,080
      Latest: 10GBASE-T NIC in PCIe gen 2 slot? Will it work? TheNatural, Jul 20, 2019 at 6:07 PM
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    5. Chassis and Enclosures
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      A place to discuss different chassis and enclosure options for servers.
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      1,324
      Messages:
      11,660
      Latest: CSE-847 Drive Disconnecting Issues Carvel, Jul 20, 2019 at 1:33 PM
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    6. DIY Server and Workstation Builds
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      Look at other users' DIY builds and show-off your own.
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      Messages:
      17,683
      Latest: Some information about HP T620 Plus Flexible Thin Client machines for network appliance builds... csp-guy, Jul 19, 2019 at 3:32 AM
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  4. Software Platforms

    A place to discuss various small business and home server operating systems and storage platforms.

    1. Solaris, Nexenta, OpenIndiana, and napp-it
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      A place to discuss Solaris, NexentaStor Enterprise Edition, Community Edition, OpenIndiana, and related topics such as the napp-it WebGUI.
      Discussions:
      834
      Messages:
      6,208
      Latest: OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.05 seizedengine, Jul 16, 2019 at 7:55 AM
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    2. VMware, VirtualBox, Citrix
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      A place to discuss VMware virtualization on platforms such as ESX and ESXi, Oracle VirtualBox and Citrix virtualization
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      Messages:
      6,014
      Latest: Troubleshooting GPU passthrough ESXi 6.5 Ross_c1234, Jul 20, 2019 at 8:47 PM
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    3. Windows Server, Hyper-V Virtualization
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      A place to discuss Windows Server platforms including Windows Server and Hyper-V Virtualization related topics.
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      484
      Messages:
      4,264
      Latest: Disk spin down with Storage Spaces cesmith9999, Jul 19, 2019 at 7:10 AM
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    4. Docker and Containers
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      A place to discuss Docker and all things containers
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      189
      Latest: Testing container VlaKl, May 14, 2019
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      314
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      2,923
      Latest: PC "macro" Automation ecosse, Jul 19, 2019 at 9:31 AM
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    6. FreeBSD and FreeNAS
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      A place to discuss FreeBSD, ZFSguru, and FreeNAS platforms.
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      256
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      Latest: A glimpse in the future of slogs ... Rand__, Jul 14, 2019
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    7. Linux Admins, Storage and Virtualization
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      A place to discuss various Linux based platforms including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, OpenSUSE, Proxmox, ZFS on Linux, KVM virtualization and others.
      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      4,239
      Latest: Setup ZFS quick question gea, Jul 20, 2019 at 1:34 PM
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    8. NAS Systems and Networked Home and SMB Software
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      For discussion of Synology, QNAP, Thecus, Drobo, Netgear, Buffalo and other NAS systems as well as SMB and Home media devices
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      Messages:
      1,559
      Latest: Trying to decide: FreeNAS, Unraid, Rockstor, Proxmox, etc. marcoi, Jul 12, 2019
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Latest: AVX512 and Monero mining traderjay, Jul 15, 2019 at 8:39 PM
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    10. Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and AI
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      A place to discuss today's machine learning, deep learning, and AI topics
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      322
      Latest: Suggestions for best 1080 TI for ML T_Minus, Jul 19, 2019 at 2:05 PM
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  5. Linux-Bench and Other Benchmarks

    Benchmark results and discussions

    1. Linux-Bench Results and Discussion
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      A forum to discuss Linux-Bench and share results with others
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      Messages:
      446
      Latest: Sharing Dual Intel Xeon E5-2650L V3 Linux-Bench Results Patrick, Jun 25, 2019
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  6. DIY and Makers

    1. DIY and Makers Spot
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      A spot for various DIY and makers
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      566
      Latest: 3d printing fan holder bracket for heatsink RTM, Jul 20, 2019 at 8:02 AM
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  7. General Chat

    1. General Chat
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      A place for other stuff that didn't fit anywhere else.
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      Messages:
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      Latest: Any recommended UCS refurbed parts re-sellers in USA? DRAGONKZ, Jul 20, 2019 at 6:09 AM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      2,282
      Latest: Unable to collapse forum sections pricklypunter, Jul 7, 2019
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