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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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      Messages:
      45,234
      Latest: (Dead) eBay: Lot of 2 Supermicro PWS-1K03A-1R 80 Plus Titanium PSUs $70 shipped OBO n17ikh, Jan 24, 2020 at 11:07 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: Updated: 1-24-20, DDR3/4, SAS3/NVMe SSDS and more! PRICE DROP! (2x) redeamon, Jan 24, 2020 at 6:27 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 chaoscontrol, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:28 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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      1,589
      Messages:
      6,410
      Latest: New 10GbE and 40GbE MikroTik Switches Coming Deslok, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:51 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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      Messages:
      29,821
      Latest: Is there an EPYC Trubo Boost Clock Breakdown/Safe Max Temps Anywhere? TXAG26, Jan 24, 2020 at 9:43 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:
      1,798
      Messages:
      13,831
      Latest: New to me HP P420 no boot tyan s7012 j_h_o, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:28 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.
      Discussions:
      1,423
      Messages:
      13,553
      Latest: Drives on Ebay: What do you call new? Markess, Jan 24, 2020 at 9:27 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:
      2,283
      Messages:
      28,559
      Latest: Ubiquiti USW Leaf Patrick, Jan 24, 2020 at 9:37 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:
      1,442
      Messages:
      12,588
      Latest: 48 Drive 4U Chassis: IBM Slicestor 3448 aka Chenbro RM43348 wallabi, Jan 23, 2020 at 3:50 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.
      Discussions:
      1,384
      Messages:
      18,615
      Latest: Built a case frame to house 12x 5.25" drives Spotswood, Jan 24, 2020 at 4:47 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:
      872
      Messages:
      6,555
      Latest: Optane NVMe for Slog/ Pooldisks or All-in-one via vdisk on OmniOS gea, Jan 24, 2020 at 9:59 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:
      657
      Messages:
      6,297
      Latest: VSAN 3Node - Real numbers? CaptainPoundSand, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:17 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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      510
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      4,411
      Latest: Client backup JSchuricht, Jan 24, 2020 at 2:02 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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      38
      Messages:
      208
      Latest: Kubernetes Namespaces fossxplorer, Dec 27, 2019
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      331
      Messages:
      3,059
      Latest: Backup recommendations? perdrix, Jan 16, 2020
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    6. FreeBSD and FreeNAS
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      A place to discuss FreeBSD, ZFSguru, and FreeNAS platforms.
      Discussions:
      264
      Messages:
      2,814
      Latest: FreeBSD/pfSense guest 10GbE SR-IOV VF successes? arglebargle, Jan 17, 2020
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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:
      504
      Messages:
      4,525
      Latest: Finally finished all the testing and ready to make then change to zfsonLinux BoredSysadmin, Jan 23, 2020 at 5:50 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:
      1,667
      Latest: Very Slow Data Transfer between two Internal Volume on Synology NAS Rand__, Jan 24, 2020 at 5:03 AM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
      270
      Messages:
      6,254
      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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      Messages:
      359
      Latest: ESXi or FreeNAS GPU passthrough for deep learning? Rand__, Dec 8, 2019
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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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      68
      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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      Messages:
      629
      Latest: Pinch Solenoids Dawg10, Dec 26, 2019
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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.
      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      9,274
      Latest: Joke/Mishap Thread - Post all your funny and shitty ideas/experiences/thoughts Sleyk, Jan 24, 2020 at 6:21 PM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
      269
      Messages:
      2,330
      Latest: STH YouTube Channel - Yes we have one Wasmachineman_NL, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:36 AM
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