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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: Seagate ST91000640SS 1TB 2.5" 6Gbps SAS Drives Samir, Feb 27, 2020 at 9:36 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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      Latest: WTT:16x 32GB LRDIMMs for 16x 32GB RDIMMs Samir, Feb 27, 2020 at 9:56 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: Supermicro X9/X10/X11 Fan Speed Control dswartz, Feb 20, 2020
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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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      Messages:
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      Latest: Microsoft Azure HBv2 HPC Features AMD EPYC 7002 and Mellanox SRussell, Feb 27, 2020 at 1:03 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: Cooling the CPU, X11SDV-4C-TLN2F Donald Thomas, Feb 27, 2020 at 8:05 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.
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      Messages:
      14,135
      Latest: H700 Adapter SBR/SPD files BLinux, Feb 27, 2020 at 4:46 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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      1,451
      Messages:
      13,757
      Latest: Issues formatting 8TB 512e to 4Kn astrocrab, Feb 27, 2020 at 2:51 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:
      29,270
      Latest: Brocade ICX Series (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE switching) HotRodNerd, Feb 27, 2020 at 5:48 PM
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    5. Chassis and Enclosures
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      A place to discuss different chassis and enclosure options for servers.
      Discussions:
      1,466
      Messages:
      12,785
      Latest: Looking for SuperMicro backplane BPN-SAS3-846EL1-N8 SRussell, Feb 27, 2020 at 9:49 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:
      18,838
      Latest: HP Z820 Workstation: adding more GPUs, lacking PCIe power cables alex_stief, Feb 25, 2020 at 3:51 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:
      880
      Messages:
      6,617
      Latest: Optane Slog Passthrough (Or Alternatives) Davewolfs, Feb 25, 2020 at 7:34 PM
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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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      6,354
      Latest: Teradici PCoIP zeroclient 6.0 firmware Rand__, Feb 27, 2020 at 2:38 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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      4,446
      Latest: Hyper-V Client - Integrated Services - Update Required j_h_o, Feb 27, 2020 at 7:09 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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      211
      Latest: USB Docker image PigLover, Feb 1, 2020
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      336
      Messages:
      3,101
      Latest: how to use backblaze solomon-reed erasure code ? acquacow, Feb 24, 2020 at 12:25 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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      2,860
      Latest: Guinea pigs needed - aka FreeNas 11.3 is out vangoose, Feb 26, 2020 at 6:42 PM
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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.
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      4,611
      Latest: Finally finished all the testing and ready to make then change to zfsonLinux vangoose, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:59 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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      1,675
      Latest: Synology + Hynix SSD compatibility? awedio, Feb 25, 2020 at 1:28 PM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Latest: Monero changed to the RandomX Algo. Klee, Dec 11, 2019
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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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      Latest: Looking for advice for my first Deep Learning system balnazzar, Feb 26, 2020 at 2:14 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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      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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      Latest: SATADOM 2 to 3 pin cables - How can I make them? jonobk, Feb 23, 2020 at 9:56 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: Need recommendations for Wifi access point pricklypunter, Feb 27, 2020 at 3:59 PM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
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      Latest: STH YouTube Channel - Yes we have one Wasmachineman_NL, Jan 22, 2020
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