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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: Supermicro 4U 45 bay JBOD chassis - $300 SycoPath, Sep 28, 2016 at 7:15 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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      Messages:
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      Latest: FS: Misc servers / motherboard, Netgear switches, IBM M1015 els, Sep 28, 2016 at 8:07 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: HP / HPE Moonshot Unofficial Reference Guide William, Sep 20, 2016
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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: Supermicro SYS-5018A-LTN4 Review – Low Power Networking Appliance Patrick Kennedy, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:23 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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      Messages:
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      Latest: ES Xeon Discussion RolloZ170, Sep 28, 2016 at 4:44 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:
      1,002
      Messages:
      8,235
      Latest: Flash a Dell H310 with Dell HBA or LSI firmware? nthu9280, Sep 27, 2016 at 7:12 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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      690
      Messages:
      7,196
      Latest: Backplane for dual port SAS SSD (Samsung SM1625) MiniKnight, Sep 26, 2016 at 5:15 PM
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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:
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      11,553
      Latest: Quanta LB4M 48-Port Gigabit Switch Discussion charlie, Sep 28, 2016 at 4:45 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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      Messages:
      6,140
      Latest: SM-CSE-743TQ briandm81, Sep 27, 2016 at 9:01 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.
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      682
      Messages:
      9,756
      Latest: High end cluster CookiesLikeWhoa, Sep 28, 2016 at 8:00 AM
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  4. Software Platforms

    A place to discuss various small business and home server operating systems and storage platforms.

    1. 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:
      341
      Messages:
      3,047
      Latest: esxi 6.0 home lab server/workstation - accessing vm vjeko, Sep 28, 2016 at 6:29 AM
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    2. 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:
      291
      Messages:
      2,592
      Latest: Server 2016 vs FreeNAS ZFS for iSCSI Storage ridney, Sep 26, 2016 at 7:14 PM
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    3. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
      Discussions:
      193
      Messages:
      1,670
      Latest: Firefox is chewing through your NAND MiniKnight, Sep 28, 2016 at 8:00 AM
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    4. FreeBSD, ZFSguru, and FreeNAS
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      A place to discuss FreeBSD, ZFSguru, and FreeNAS platforms.
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      Messages:
      1,126
      Latest: FreeNAS 10 and OmniOS not compatible Hank C, Sep 26, 2016 at 2:13 PM
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    5. 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:
      1,130
      Latest: How should I partition my Proxmox install on 2x800GB Raid1 array? el_pedr0, Sep 28, 2016 at 2:10 AM
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    6. Commercial NAS Systems
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      For discussion of Synology, QNAP, Thecus, Drobo, Netgear, Buffalo and other NAS systems
      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      381
      Latest: QNAP TS-563 Thoughts/Mini-review (Bonus QNAP TS-251+ Nano-Review) cthulolz, Aug 26, 2016
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    7. 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:
      555
      Messages:
      3,768
      Latest: Trying to determine ZFS design of vdevs Patrick, Sep 28, 2016 at 6:04 AM
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    8. HTPC-Network Media Player Forum
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      Discuss HTPCs, network media players, and other hardware for media playback.
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      Messages:
      423
      Latest: Plex goes DVR cheezehead, Sep 27, 2016 at 4:56 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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      48
      Messages:
      351
      Latest: Linux-Bench: Storage Patrick, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:57 AM
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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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      Messages:
      140
      Latest: Kicking the Starbucks Habit: Cold Brew at Home Patrick, Sep 15, 2016
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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:
      4,312
      Latest: Any serve the home members at ignite? whitey, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:56 AM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      1,729
      Latest: Site is broken over IPv6 Patrick, Sep 27, 2016 at 2:24 PM
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