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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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      33,374
      Latest: Smokin' deal on HGST HUSMM 400GB 12Gbps sas drives i386, May 24, 2018 at 9:53 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:
      19,223
      Latest: FS: Dell PowerEdge VRTX Tower Enclosure, E5-2670 V2, 512GB RAM, 5.4TB SAS frogtech, May 24, 2018 at 6:28 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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      275
      Latest: Install Mellanox Driver Proxmox VE 5.1 cluefr, May 14, 2018
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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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      834
      Messages:
      4,145
      Latest: Intel Xeon Gold 6152 Benchmarks and Review Top Core Count Xeon Gold Patrick Kennedy, May 24, 2018 at 6:52 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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      1,903
      Messages:
      22,925
      Latest: Supermicro X11SAT-F Thunderbolt 3 support Stephan, May 23, 2018 at 10:50 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:
      1,440
      Messages:
      11,022
      Latest: LSI 9265 / IBM M5016 spin down MicheleM79, May 24, 2018 at 5:54 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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      1,108
      Messages:
      10,972
      Latest: Help with HGST SAS incompatible with Intel C606 Pattsburg SCU? BLinux, May 24, 2018 at 1:02 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:
      1,613
      Messages:
      19,353
      Latest: Flashing Delta 7024 to Dell 8024 i6feetunder, May 23, 2018 at 9:23 PM
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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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      1,102
      Messages:
      10,032
      Latest: Help with HP Procurve maze, May 23, 2018 at 2:18 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:
      1,117
      Messages:
      15,189
      Latest: Mezzanine and Backplane Connectors nallar, May 24, 2018 at 5:37 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:
      716
      Messages:
      5,232
      Latest: SSD performance - issues again Rand__, May 20, 2018 at 3:28 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:
      539
      Messages:
      5,277
      Latest: ESXI 6.7 GPU PassThrough and "Expose hardware assisted virtualization to the guest OS" not working. Kristian, May 22, 2018 at 1:55 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.
      Discussions:
      423
      Messages:
      3,723
      Latest: Super cheap AD controller. zedascuras, May 24, 2018 at 3:26 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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      28
      Messages:
      158
      Latest: Docker Swarm management: Rancher, Shipyard, Portainer or other? fatiha, May 22, 2018 at 7:44 AM
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      287
      Messages:
      2,703
      Latest: Anyone decent at GNU Plot? Blinky 42, May 23, 2018 at 11:44 AM
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    6. FreeBSD and FreeNAS
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      A place to discuss FreeBSD, ZFSguru, and FreeNAS platforms.
      Discussions:
      223
      Messages:
      2,484
      Latest: zpool not degraded, but certain files cause transfers to hang Terry Kennedy, May 20, 2018 at 12:31 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:
      363
      Messages:
      3,432
      Latest: Change Proxmox IP after the fact kroem, May 21, 2018 at 7:38 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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      Messages:
      1,310
      Latest: NVMe Storage Solution whitey, Apr 20, 2018
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      5,983
      Latest: What's up in the last 24-48 hours? Jeggs101, May 22, 2018 at 4:42 PM
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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:
      186
      Latest: Machine Learning for Beginners BackupProphet, May 21, 2018 at 8:02 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
      Discussions:
      67
      Messages:
      435
      Latest: Tesla P100 x 8 Linpack testing on SYS-4028GR-TXRT Lukas Goe, Jan 15, 2018
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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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      386
      Latest: DIY Server Rack Build Log laserpaddy, May 7, 2018
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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:
      7,456
      Latest: Hardware pron thread maze, May 23, 2018 at 1:04 PM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      2,131
      Latest: Potential Spam Patrick, May 22, 2018 at 9:02 PM
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