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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: Memorial Day Sales - P3605, 3TB, 4TB, S9300, etc. ewer0012, Jun 19, 2019 at 7:53 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:
      3,620
      Messages:
      23,890
      Latest: FS: HP ML350p Gen8 8 Bay SFF Drive Backplane Expander tomaash, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:10 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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      Messages:
      386
      Latest: Supermicro X9/X10/X11 Fan Speed Control dswartz, Jun 10, 2019
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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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      1,308
      Messages:
      5,673
      Latest: Top500 June 2019 Our New Systems Analysis Patrick Kennedy, Jun 19, 2019 at 1:42 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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      2,342
      Messages:
      27,113
      Latest: Upgrade from X8DTE-F? LeeSter, Jun 19, 2019 at 9:44 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:
      1,668
      Messages:
      12,761
      Latest: Migrate arrays from LSI 9280 to LSI 9271? dexvx, Jun 17, 2019 at 11:07 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.
      Discussions:
      1,294
      Messages:
      12,611
      Latest: Supermico 2x NVMe Add-On Card - Will this work in a Supermicro 4027/28 GPU Server? RCS, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:01 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:
      2,056
      Messages:
      25,651
      Latest: Are there 2.5GBase-T SFP+ modules? AlphaG, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:37 AM
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    5. Chassis and Enclosures
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      A place to discuss different chassis and enclosure options for servers.
      Discussions:
      1,312
      Messages:
      11,540
      Latest: U-NAS NSC-810A Hot Swap Bays not receiving power Litesung, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:00 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.
      Discussions:
      1,272
      Messages:
      17,551
      Latest: Multiple GPU cards fit... AmusedGoose, Jun 19, 2019 at 2:21 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:
      828
      Messages:
      6,160
      Latest: omnios+nappit 10gb performance: iperf fast, zfs-send slow thulle, Jun 19, 2019 at 9:14 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:
      616
      Messages:
      5,938
      Latest: CX3 iSER zxv, Jun 19, 2019 at 9:40 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:
      481
      Messages:
      4,256
      Latest: RDMA slow in one direction. zxv, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:43 AM
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    4. Docker and Containers
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      A place to discuss Docker and all things containers
      Discussions:
      33
      Messages:
      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:
      311
      Messages:
      2,904
      Latest: How to monitor/identify used blocksize (for different data) Rand__, Jun 16, 2019 at 1:06 PM
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    6. FreeBSD and FreeNAS
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      A place to discuss FreeBSD, ZFSguru, and FreeNAS platforms.
      Discussions:
      253
      Messages:
      2,726
      Latest: FreeNAS Error - Cam Status: SCSI Status Error Fritz, Jun 17, 2019 at 4:17 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:
      460
      Messages:
      4,221
      Latest: ZFS iSER SAN efschu2, Jun 18, 2019 at 4:13 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:
      154
      Messages:
      1,537
      Latest: Creating all-SSD NAS and syncing with upstream remote NAS Evan, May 31, 2019
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
      265
      Messages:
      6,080
      Latest: Docker xmrig cryptonight universal Ottohans82, Mar 18, 2019
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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:
      311
      Latest: Best Resources to Learn Machine learning zxv, Jun 19, 2019 at 9:25 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:
      444
      Latest: Setting up Linux VM on hard wired Optane memory ttabbal, Mar 24, 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
      Discussions:
      61
      Messages:
      536
      Latest: Motion Sensor + Camera + Alert T_Minus, Jun 17, 2019 at 12:00 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.
      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      8,730
      Latest: Joke/Mishap Thread - Post all your funny and shitty ideas/experiences/thoughts Samir, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:40 AM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
      260
      Messages:
      2,276
      Latest: GPU sub-forum Venturi, Jun 3, 2019
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