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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: Newegg - Superchassis Cse-505-203B 200W 1U Rackmount Server Chassis (Black) - $80 AC whitey, Jun 22, 2018 at 3:03 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.
      Discussions:
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      Messages:
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      Latest: WTB - DDR3 UDIMM AFisher, Jun 22, 2018 at 4:37 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: Post your 4Kn (4K Native Advanced Format) experiences here Dawg10, Jun 21, 2018 at 9:15 PM
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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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      Latest: Intel Atom C2000 AVR54 Bug Strikes STH Today woodshop2300, Jun 22, 2018 at 9:23 AM
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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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      23,160
      Latest: Xeon E - Supermicro Boards Appearing - Release Date? Patrick, Jun 22, 2018 at 4:45 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:
      1,452
      Messages:
      11,114
      Latest: Poor RAID-6 performance with Adaptec 7-series Myth, Jun 22, 2018 at 10:07 AM
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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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      1,118
      Messages:
      11,051
      Latest: HGST HUSMM1616ASS201 only work on 6gb Terry Kennedy, Jun 22, 2018 at 1:35 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.
      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      19,650
      Latest: 10gig SFP+ switch ports for less than $100? fohdeesha, Jun 22, 2018 at 4:21 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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      1,115
      Messages:
      10,119
      Latest: Any other vendors of JBOD chassis like supermicro? SPCRich, Jun 22, 2018 at 10:22 AM
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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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      1,129
      Messages:
      15,338
      Latest: Help decide on new storage build ZataH, Jun 22, 2018 at 2:37 PM
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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:
      720
      Messages:
      5,257
      Latest: Toshiba Persistent Write Cache Jeggs101, Jun 20, 2018 at 6:21 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
      Discussions:
      543
      Messages:
      5,308
      Latest: ESX Slow NVMe with intel driver Aestr, Jun 16, 2018 at 11:39 AM
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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.
      Discussions:
      428
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      3,782
      Latest: S2D slow write (no parity & NVMe cache) Jeff Robertson, Jun 22, 2018 at 2:46 PM
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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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      158
      Latest: Docker Swarm management: Rancher, Shipyard, Portainer or other? fatiha, May 22, 2018
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      289
      Messages:
      2,716
      Latest: sms (or other) to transmit message to mobile device? PigLover, Jun 19, 2018 at 2:25 PM
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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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      224
      Messages:
      2,496
      Latest: Use FreeNAS and FreeBSD service to talk to wireless sensors EffrafaxOfWug, Jun 15, 2018
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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:
      3,465
      Latest: abysmal zfs raidz2 throughput BLinux, Jun 22, 2018 at 10:45 AM
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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:
      1,315
      Latest: Got an Optane and want to get the most out of it _alex, Jun 8, 2018
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      6,010
      Latest: asic or gpu miner? Petrion, Jun 15, 2018
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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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      Messages:
      189
      Latest: ML to predict server health based on text logs. Nabi, Jun 12, 2018
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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:
      435
      Latest: Tesla P100 x 8 Linpack testing on SYS-4028GR-TXRT Lukas Goe, Jan 15, 2018
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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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      Messages:
      389
      Latest: Need a little help with building IP camera server maze, Jun 12, 2018
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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:
      7,504
      Latest: NYT Article China vs Micron timofeym, Jun 22, 2018 at 4:05 PM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      2,181
      Latest: STH Down unplanned firewall upgrade opportunity Evan, Jun 22, 2018 at 1:34 PM
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