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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: Blade G8000F-48-Port-L3-Switch 119 USD frogtech, Sep 20, 2017 at 9:52 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.
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      Latest: Cisco freebies for the cost of shipping and handling BLinux, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:16 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: Deploying vSphere Integrated Containers Dean, Sep 19, 2017 at 7:27 AM
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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: AMD EPYC 7351P Single Socket CPU Linux Benchmarks and Review Evan, Sep 20, 2017 at 9:22 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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      Latest: 2011 Passive CPU cooler wildpig1234, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:17 AM
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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:
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      Latest: 9240-4i to IT Rand__, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:04 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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      Latest: ZLOG Benchmark is coming Patrick, Sep 20, 2017 at 9:35 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.
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      Latest: Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN and Windows 10? saivert, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:20 AM
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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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      Latest: U-NAS NSC-810A mATX Chassis MrT0ad, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:50 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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      13,176
      Latest: what's the recommendation for Supermicro 846 cable management in rack? BLinux, Sep 19, 2017 at 3:15 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:
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      Messages:
      4,649
      Latest: Updating OmniOS r151014 to Latest? gea, Sep 18, 2017 at 1:12 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:
      459
      Messages:
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      Latest: Vsphere Certification - Advice requested K D, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:03 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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      379
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      Latest: Backup Server Powering On By Itself? Tom5051, Sep 15, 2017 at 2:04 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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      Latest: Docker Multiple IDs found with provided prefix sean, Aug 1, 2017
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      2,429
      Latest: Cloud backup solution? scobar, Sep 11, 2017
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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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      1,948
      Latest: Just upgraded to FreeBSD 11.1 CJRoss, Sep 15, 2017 at 1:24 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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      2,707
      Latest: Proxmox vs. ESXi...what am I losing? pricklypunter, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:33 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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      1,080
      Latest: Replacement for cloud backup? moblaw, Sep 17, 2017 at 2:34 AM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Latest: Antminer D3 Monoman, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:33 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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      132
      Latest: Confused about system RAM and GPU RAM frozen, Sep 7, 2017
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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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      425
      Latest: error on upload vyvy210690, Sep 7, 2017
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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: Looking for help on building a R.A.I.S. elfick, Sep 14, 2017 at 10:24 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: How to keep Proliant FW/SW/drivers current between SPP releases? Tim, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:47 AM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
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      Latest: Small new forum feature today - Instagram embeds PigLover, Sep 13, 2017
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