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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: Everyone's next boot drive S3500 480GB $120 AVD2359, Apr 23, 2018 at 9:39 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: Dell X1052 10Gb Switch, ICY DOCK 3.5 > 2.5 Adapters, 2U Chassis w/Rails, 10Gb SFPs IamSpartacus, Apr 23, 2018 at 9:09 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: RasPBX (Apr 2018) getting calls with Google Voice and Bluetooth pc-tecky, Apr 15, 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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      Messages:
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      Latest: ASUS WS C621E SAGE Motherboard The Search of Incredible is Over TLN, Apr 23, 2018 at 8:46 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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      22,677
      Latest: HWInfo64 QL1F's & QL1K's Kupaloid, Apr 23, 2018 at 3:30 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:
      1,418
      Messages:
      10,876
      Latest: SAS9211-8i looses Raid Config Rand__, Apr 22, 2018 at 12:26 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:
      10,788
      Latest: QNAP qm2 dual M2 cards with 10gb networking amalurk, Apr 23, 2018 at 9:48 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:
      1,586
      Messages:
      19,095
      Latest: Outdoor fiber cable recommendation? mstone, Apr 23, 2018 at 6:57 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:
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      Latest: >900watt Desktop UPS? IamSpartacus, Apr 23, 2018 at 7:29 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.
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      Messages:
      14,955
      Latest: FreeNas Home tight budget system Slahit, Apr 23, 2018 at 7:33 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:
      709
      Messages:
      5,115
      Latest: SuperMicro X11 SPH-nCTPF/ nCTF on OmniOS/OI/Solaris Jeggs101, Apr 21, 2018 at 8:15 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
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      Latest: ESXi 6.5U1 w/ Ryzen - web GUI crashes & weirdness imrazor, Apr 23, 2018 at 6:13 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:
      415
      Messages:
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      Latest: Server 2016 vs FreeNAS ZFS for iSCSI Storage T_Minus, Apr 22, 2018 at 1:00 PM
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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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      Latest: I am confused: Can someone summarize what linux docker is ? i386, Apr 3, 2018
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      2,671
      Latest: A silly Question, is there a better alternative to pfsense for home use? Deslok, Apr 22, 2018 at 8:19 AM
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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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      2,457
      Latest: Home Server Build Visseroth, Apr 22, 2018 at 3:07 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:
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      Messages:
      3,389
      Latest: Has anyone tried bcachefs yet? SlickNetAaron, Apr 23, 2018 at 9:41 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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      1,310
      Latest: NVMe Storage Solution whitey, Apr 20, 2018 at 6:00 PM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
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      Latest: Interesting Windows only cryptonight miner that mines fast on non AES cpu's. Nero24, Apr 23, 2018 at 9:31 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: Are new GTX cards coming out tomorrow? frozen, Apr 13, 2018
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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:
      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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      Messages:
      382
      Latest: Raspberry Pi & VoIP phones pc-tecky, Apr 6, 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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      Latest: What is suffix "0Q" in Samsung PC4-LRDIMM M393A2G40DB0-CPB(0Q) ?? minimini, Apr 22, 2018 at 10:08 AM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
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      Latest: Inaugural STH Newsletter Patrick, Apr 21, 2018 at 4:06 PM
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