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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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      42,586
      Latest: Cheap Gigabit fiber adapter for the HP t730 Thin Client tomsliwowski, Aug 25, 2019 at 3:24 PM
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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:
      24,643
      Latest: Toshiba PM5-R 15.36TB SAS SSDs, 16/32/64/128GB DDR4 RAM Aaron, Aug 25, 2019 at 8:10 PM
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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: The NUC based home lab Evan, Aug 22, 2019 at 4:19 PM
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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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      1,398
      Messages:
      5,884
      Latest: Huawei Ascend 910 Provides a NVIDIA AI Training Alternative Patrick Kennedy, Aug 25, 2019 at 9:32 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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      2,437
      Messages:
      27,943
      Latest: Advice on building Xeon workstation lhibou, Aug 25, 2019 at 3:18 PM
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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:
      1,704
      Messages:
      13,065
      Latest: HP LSISAS 1078 C2 DanOVe, Aug 25, 2019 at 1:49 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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      1,330
      Messages:
      12,910
      Latest: Searching for list of all Samsung drive codes TLN, Aug 25, 2019 at 7:58 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:
      2,115
      Messages:
      26,525
      Latest: Brocade ICX Series (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE switching) fohdeesha, Aug 25, 2019 at 7:54 PM
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    5. Chassis and Enclosures
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      A place to discuss different chassis and enclosure options for servers.
      Discussions:
      1,344
      Messages:
      11,904
      Latest: Mini/Mid Tower Chassis Recommendation: 16 x 2.5" SATA/SAS2 ReturnedSword, Aug 25, 2019 at 1:23 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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      1,307
      Messages:
      17,881
      Latest: Onine (Double Conversion) UPS-es BobTB, Aug 23, 2019 at 1:50 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:
      842
      Messages:
      6,280
      Latest: Best way to access storage pool with Linux (Ubuntu Server) gea, Aug 22, 2019 at 5:36 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:
      628
      Messages:
      6,045
      Latest: ESXi monitor performance cut off svtkobra7, Aug 25, 2019 at 7:51 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:
      488
      Messages:
      4,290
      Latest: Microsoft HPC, network throughput issue RRB, Aug 24, 2019 at 9:08 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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      33
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      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.
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      2,932
      Latest: Ebay export buying/selling history to CSV cageek, Aug 9, 2019
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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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      256
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      2,766
      Latest: import from napp-it? dragonme, Aug 7, 2019
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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:
      4,318
      Latest: Principles of virtualization Evan, Aug 25, 2019 at 4:13 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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      Messages:
      1,594
      Latest: Security Cams & TV to Monitor them T_Minus, Aug 25, 2019 at 7:30 PM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      6,144
      Latest: Dedicated Open Compute miner build- Part 2.The RandomX Edition. Klee, Aug 23, 2019 at 5:58 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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      333
      Latest: 1T transistors, petabits of bandwidth, 18GB of L1 memory (sram) AI chip vv111y, Aug 21, 2019 at 10:39 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:
      446
      Latest: Sharing Dual Intel Xeon E5-2650L V3 Linux-Bench Results Patrick, Jun 25, 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
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      Messages:
      578
      Latest: HP ws460c G8 Expansion Trouble ClaudAndrus, Aug 13, 2019
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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: New guy here with some questions. IamSpartacus, Aug 24, 2019 at 4:58 AM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      2,282
      Latest: Unable to collapse forum sections pricklypunter, Jul 7, 2019
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