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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:
      46,694
      Latest: Quanta 2U D51B: LGA2011-3, 24 x 2.5" Trays, 10 GbE, Rails $250 OBO Bjorn Smith, Apr 2, 2020 at 12:08 AM
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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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      Latest: FS: 1.6, 3.84, 7.68TB, 15.36 TB SSDs, SAS, SATA & NVMe Indecided, Apr 2, 2020 at 12:29 AM
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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: FreeNas: How to Bridge Nics like a Switch and DHCP-serve them RageBone, Mar 31, 2020 at 3:44 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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      Messages:
      6,698
      Latest: HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus Ultimate Customization Guide Patrick, Apr 1, 2020 at 1:04 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:
      30,712
      Latest: Looking for low power 24/7 virtualization&Nas platform. BLinux, Apr 1, 2020 at 9:47 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:
      1,850
      Messages:
      14,264
      Latest: Flash/Crossflash DELL H330 RAID Card to HBA330/12Gbps HBA IT Firmware Sleyk, Apr 1, 2020 at 1:25 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:
      1,482
      Messages:
      13,939
      Latest: Looking for advice on 4TB NVME SSDs for workstation use. Analogue Blacksheep, Apr 1, 2020 at 3:03 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:
      2,364
      Messages:
      29,812
      Latest: Brocade ICX Series (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE switching) klui, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:30 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:
      1,483
      Messages:
      12,925
      Latest: Thoughts on sound "proofing" (dampening) a Startech 4POSTRACK12U Spartacus, Mar 30, 2020 at 8:53 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:
      1,420
      Messages:
      18,949
      Latest: New home server hurdles Spartacus, Apr 1, 2020 at 8:46 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:
      887
      Messages:
      6,691
      Latest: Amazon S3 compatible ZFS cloud with minIO gea, Mar 30, 2020 at 6:58 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:
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      Messages:
      6,390
      Latest: Quick sanity test - VM single thread CPU Perf Rand__, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:07 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.
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      519
      Messages:
      4,482
      Latest: Storage Space - lost virtual disk BestGear, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:54 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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      38
      Messages:
      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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      Messages:
      3,122
      Latest: Local Mail aggregator amalurk, Apr 1, 2020 at 12:12 PM
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    6. FreeBSD FreeNAS and TrueNAS Core
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      A place to discuss FreeBSD, ZFSguru, FreeNAS, TrueNAS Core platforms.
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      275
      Messages:
      2,949
      Latest: FreeNAS 11.3 U1 and Mellanox ConnectX-3 issue chrisk2305, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:04 AM
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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:
      519
      Messages:
      4,653
      Latest: High IO Wait on Proxmox Emile, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:40 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
      Discussions:
      174
      Messages:
      1,690
      Latest: Synology Low Speed with 40Gbps NIC & Nvme SSD blackeyed, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:34 AM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      6,255
      Latest: Good Bitcoin roles for data scientists? Hunter, Mar 23, 2020
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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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      386
      Latest: Looking for advice for my first Deep Learning system Cixelyn, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:09 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:
      451
      Latest: Which CPU(s) are the kings in x265 encoding? i386, Mar 18, 2020
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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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      642
      Latest: SATADOM 2 to 3 pin cables - How can I make them? jonobk, Feb 23, 2020
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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: Killing Time Markess, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:51 AM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      2,333
      Latest: STH YouTube Channel - Yes we have one nthu9280, Mar 31, 2020 at 6:57 PM
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