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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: Fujitsu D2607 - LSI SAS-2008 - $25.49 on eBay nthu9280, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:50 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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      Messages:
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      Latest: FS: DDR4 16GB - Intel SSD - HGST SAS SSD - HGST SAS 15K K D, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:32 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 Ellwood, Jun 16, 2017
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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: Dual AMD EPYC 7601 CPUs Can Offset Operational Costs Using Monero Mining gigatexal, Jun 22, 2017 at 3:07 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: HomeLab Hardware - Virtualization Monoman, Jun 23, 2017 at 2:34 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.
      Discussions:
      1,212
      Messages:
      9,561
      Latest: Actual throughput of MD1200 and SFF-8088 i386, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:25 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.
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      Messages:
      9,015
      Latest: Is Sata II / 2 fast enough for Mechanical drives? cactus, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:53 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:
      1,266
      Messages:
      15,333
      Latest: Stacking alternative to Ubiquiti ES-16-XG K D, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:22 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: Quiet server rack enclosures Evan, Jun 23, 2017 at 9:05 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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      12,402
      Latest: Dell PowerEdge C8220 Build and Questions Limoneverde, Jun 23, 2017 at 7:07 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:
      639
      Messages:
      4,473
      Latest: OmniOS 151022 long term stable gea, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:41 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
      Discussions:
      439
      Messages:
      4,251
      Latest: Storage Advice Needed for iSCSI nev_neo, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:47 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:
      364
      Messages:
      3,271
      Latest: File Server and Hyper-V Evan, Jun 22, 2017 at 6:11 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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      108
      Latest: VMware Integrated Containers jmccoy555, Jun 17, 2017 at 8:24 AM
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      251
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      2,301
      Latest: New system for Adobe Premiere rubylaser, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:39 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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      1,778
      Latest: FreeNAS 11 PigLover, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:52 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:
      2,476
      Latest: Benchmarking Patrick, Jun 21, 2017 at 3:10 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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      105
      Messages:
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      Latest: New NAS coming - Synology DS1817 Peanuthead, Jun 22, 2017 at 8:03 PM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      1,326
      Latest: Mining other altcoins that are not as popular as Monero, Zcash , Eth ect. nfsden, Jun 23, 2017 at 7:02 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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      Latest: 1x 1080ti vs 3-4x 1060s regardless of power Monoman, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:45 AM
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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:
      400
      Latest: Hypervisor Comparison DBordello, Jun 5, 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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      245
      Latest: 3d printed Intel RES2SV240 SAS Expander Mounting Bracket cesmith9999, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:51 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:
      5,864
      Latest: Home Lab V2 upgrade K D, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:29 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: weird redirect for forums url using http Patrick, Jun 15, 2017
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