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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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      3,196
      Messages:
      44,299
      Latest: HGST 1.6TB SN200 U.2 NVMe - $195 semidetached, Dec 10, 2019 at 7:19 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:
      25,952
      Latest: FS: Homelab Gear SRussell, Dec 10, 2019 at 4:56 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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      Messages:
      428
      Latest: Introduction to the HP t730 Thin client - the little box that could David Smith, Nov 25, 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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      Messages:
      6,255
      Latest: MikroTik S+RJ10 Review Convert SFP+ to 10Gbase-T Inexpensively cheezehead, Dec 10, 2019 at 7:38 PM
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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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      2,571
      Messages:
      29,274
      Latest: Change to 2011-3 platform is it really worth it RageBone, Dec 10, 2019 at 1:23 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:
      1,764
      Messages:
      13,554
      Latest: Flash/Crossflash DELL H330 RAID Card to HBA330/12Gbps HBA IT Firmware rootpeer, Dec 10, 2019 at 3:41 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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      1,395
      Messages:
      13,352
      Latest: Path to learn more about storage? gregsachs, Dec 10, 2019 at 4:32 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:
      2,230
      Messages:
      27,881
      Latest: Brocade ICX Series (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE switching) Wolfstar, Dec 10, 2019 at 11:20 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:
      1,407
      Messages:
      12,386
      Latest: Donated Equipment - Data Centre Evan, Dec 10, 2019 at 5:08 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.
      Discussions:
      1,358
      Messages:
      18,322
      Latest: Freenas build, with a rack chassis itronin, Dec 10, 2019 at 7:04 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:
      864
      Messages:
      6,462
      Latest: Can I safely delete the napp-it-18.12.zip, nappit2.sh, & setup-napp-it.log files after installing? jdrch, Dec 10, 2019 at 6:40 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:
      643
      Messages:
      6,161
      Latest: Do you have to use a cache tier with vSAN? Spartacus, Dec 8, 2019 at 11:29 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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      502
      Messages:
      4,370
      Latest: How to force reset a drive in storage spaces Bert, Dec 10, 2019 at 6:56 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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      36
      Messages:
      201
      Latest: Containers with macvlan network AND bridge iceisfun, Oct 19, 2019
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
      Discussions:
      326
      Messages:
      3,007
      Latest: After some help with SCSI sense decoding Falloutboy, Dec 9, 2019 at 5:44 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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      261
      Messages:
      2,796
      Latest: FreeNAS 11.2-STABLE Available Now mackle, Nov 24, 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:
      4,454
      Latest: QUEST: zfs, zvol, kvm settings/tuning (to fix SLOW VM sync-access) fermulator, Dec 10, 2019 at 7:45 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:
      1,642
      Latest: Block Level dedupe on Synology BTRFS VS adding more drives BoredSysadmin, Dec 3, 2019
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
      270
      Messages:
      6,251
      Latest: Monero changed to the RandomX Algo. MiniKnight, Dec 10, 2019 at 1:53 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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      57
      Messages:
      359
      Latest: ESXi or FreeNAS GPU passthrough for deep learning? Rand__, Dec 8, 2019 at 10:50 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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      68
      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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      71
      Messages:
      624
      Latest: Modding Server Rack Back Panel Dawg10, Nov 30, 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.
      Discussions:
      1,064
      Messages:
      9,103
      Latest: Apple Mac Pro without Epyc SRussell, Dec 10, 2019 at 1:56 AM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
      269
      Messages:
      2,322
      Latest: Raid on a Gigabyte AMD Server marv, Dec 8, 2019 at 5:11 AM
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