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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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      42,940
      Latest: 60 port 10G SFP+ switch 250 USD BeTeP, Sep 21, 2019 at 6:35 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: Sale - Ram - HDD - SSD Dbuffed, Sep 21, 2019 at 10:00 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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      415
      Latest: Maximize width on iKVM/HTML5 & Get rid of Java popup! mb300sd, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:42 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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      1,432
      Messages:
      5,974
      Latest: Toshiba BG4 Single Package M.2 2230 30mm NVMe SSD Review abq, Sep 21, 2019 at 9:30 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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      Messages:
      28,329
      Latest: New AsrockRack 3251 Motherboard with 10gbe NICs Janga, Sep 21, 2019 at 10:05 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.
      Discussions:
      1,717
      Messages:
      13,161
      Latest: Supermicro AOC-SLG3-8E2P Octaport NVMe HBA ullbeking, Sep 21, 2019 at 10:50 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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      1,353
      Messages:
      13,042
      Latest: Dell drive compatibility list Terry Kennedy, Sep 21, 2019 at 11:20 AM
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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:
      2,142
      Messages:
      26,803
      Latest: 10GbE network speed slow on Netgear XS716-T themindiswatching, Sep 21, 2019 at 4:46 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:
      1,360
      Messages:
      12,047
      Latest: Is there interest in a case that can house 4x hot-swap cages, SFX/ATX PSU & mini-ITX motherboard? croakz, Sep 21, 2019 at 6:59 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:
      1,316
      Messages:
      17,982
      Latest: Mezzanine and Backplane Connectors warvick, Sep 20, 2019 at 12:16 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:
      844
      Messages:
      6,303
      Latest: OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.05 gea, Sep 20, 2019 at 1:28 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:
      631
      Messages:
      6,082
      Latest: ESXi monitor performance cut off BoredSysadmin, Sep 18, 2019 at 7:33 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:
      490
      Messages:
      4,316
      Latest: Options for NVMe raid on Windows. edge, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:32 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.
      Discussions:
      316
      Messages:
      2,942
      Latest: Can somebody tell me what the heck this is supposed to mean? Fritz, Sep 20, 2019 at 3:48 PM
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    6. FreeBSD and FreeNAS
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      A place to discuss FreeBSD, ZFSguru, and FreeNAS platforms.
      Discussions:
      259
      Messages:
      2,781
      Latest: Multipath disks detected on a -A backplane Terry Kennedy, Sep 21, 2019 at 7:25 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.
      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      4,358
      Latest: Running pfSense virtualized but serving the Proxmox as well msg7086, Sep 21, 2019 at 9:29 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
      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      1,630
      Latest: Synology/Xpenology on DIY Box… Reliable? Powerful? mbosma, Sep 17, 2019 at 3:18 AM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      6,156
      Latest: Dedicated Open Compute miner build- Part 2.The RandomX Edition. Klee, Sep 21, 2019 at 9:11 AM
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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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      333
      Latest: 1T transistors, petabits of bandwidth, 18GB of L1 memory (sram) AI chip vv111y, Aug 21, 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:
      583
      Latest: Need a rack? This is pretty neat. herby, Sep 21, 2019 at 4:25 PM
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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: Supermicro Guide - Potential new purchase zack$, Sep 19, 2019 at 8:10 AM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
      264
      Messages:
      2,289
      Latest: Why not IBM z15 Coverage on STH? Evan, Sep 20, 2019 at 2:17 AM
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