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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: ConnectX-3 Pro MCX354A-FCCT FDR10 40/56GbE 2 PORT QSFP, $109 shipped, 8 available wardtj, Aug 18, 2018 at 7:43 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.
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      Latest: WTB: Xeon E5-1630 - 1660 v4, 1650 v3 klammore, Aug 18, 2018 at 4:18 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: Supermicro X9/X10/X11 Fan Speed Control VirtualBacon, Aug 13, 2018 at 7:49 AM
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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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      Latest: IBM POWER9 E950 and E980 Servers Launched Cliff Robinson, Aug 18, 2018 at 8:52 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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      Latest: The truth about CPU power consumption wildpig1234, Aug 18, 2018 at 8:00 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.
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      1,488
      Messages:
      11,353
      Latest: Bad HBA, Expander, or User? Chefboyardee, Aug 18, 2018 at 7:09 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:
      11,211
      Latest: Is it possible to "re-flash" a WD-Red drive? Terry Kennedy, Aug 18, 2018 at 5:09 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:
      1,699
      Messages:
      20,733
      Latest: Trusting network cards purchased from ebay mb300sd, Aug 18, 2018 at 6:46 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:
      1,144
      Messages:
      10,355
      Latest: Do "Fixed" or "Non-Sliding" Rails Exist for Racking a Supermicro 826 svtkobra7, Aug 18, 2018 at 12:43 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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      Messages:
      15,839
      Latest: New 1U pfSense build - Can't decide on hardware Robert Fontaine, Aug 18, 2018 at 8:34 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:
      733
      Messages:
      5,364
      Latest: SLOG drives i386, Aug 17, 2018 at 7:41 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:
      551
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      5,377
      Latest: ESXI 6.0 Passthrough onboard SATA AveryFreeman, Aug 18, 2018 at 11:27 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.
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      432
      Messages:
      3,845
      Latest: Virtual Machine Memory Warning Nizmo, Aug 18, 2018 at 7:12 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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      158
      Latest: Docker Swarm management: Rancher, Shipyard, Portainer or other? fatiha, May 22, 2018
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      2,756
      Latest: Software Defined Storage macrules34, Aug 18, 2018 at 5:05 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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      Latest: FreeNAS and ESXi hardware sanity check/advice Rand__, Aug 9, 2018
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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.
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      3,606
      Latest: How many here run ZFS on Linux and get good fsync performance? Monoman, Aug 18, 2018 at 9:46 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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      Latest: SSD Caching for NVR bateau, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:44 PM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Latest: Cool new mining case And motherboard for my P106-100 GTX 1060 gpu's UPDATE: Its assembled!! Finally! Hackeron, Aug 18, 2018 at 4:33 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: 500 trillion int4 tops and 10 grand the new RTX 8000 from Nvidia Jim Dowling, Aug 16, 2018 at 2:01 PM
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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:
      436
      Latest: Tesla P100 x 8 Linpack testing on SYS-4028GR-TXRT Patrick, Jul 1, 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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      427
      Latest: IP-enabled device to control Voltage/Wattage K D, Aug 16, 2018 at 8:34 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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      Latest: Ebay Search Terms. Dawg10, Aug 18, 2018 at 7:30 PM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
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      Latest: I am way behind on messages Patrick, Aug 10, 2018
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