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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: cheap used or new ssd at least 120GB wildpig1234, Mar 31, 2020 at 1:54 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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      Latest: Updated: 3-30-20, *AMD QS ROME EPYCS*! DDR3/4 WTB/WTT: H11x based MBs Stephan, Mar 30, 2020 at 11:02 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: FreeNas: How to Bridge Nics like a Switch and DHCP-serve them RageBone, Mar 17, 2020
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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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      1,662
      Messages:
      6,692
      Latest: Tyan Transport SX TS65A-B8036 2U 28-bay AMD EPYC Server Review Think, Mar 31, 2020 at 2:00 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: Can you use E5-4XXXL processors on single proc m/b? Supermicro X10SRM-TF jang430, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:52 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:
      1,850
      Messages:
      14,262
      Latest: Flash/Crossflash DELL H330 RAID Card to HBA330/12Gbps HBA IT Firmware smartkei, Mar 31, 2020 at 2:19 AM
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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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      1,481
      Messages:
      13,933
      Latest: ELI5: NVME Namespaces TLN, Mar 30, 2020 at 9:11 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.
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      2,362
      Messages:
      29,792
      Latest: Arista DCS-7050QX-32 fohdeesha, Mar 30, 2020 at 11:55 PM
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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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      1,483
      Messages:
      12,925
      Latest: Thoughts on sound "proofing" (dampening) a Startech 4POSTRACK12U Spartacus, Mar 30, 2020 at 8:53 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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      1,420
      Messages:
      18,944
      Latest: New home server hurdles Markess, Mar 28, 2020 at 9:12 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:
      887
      Messages:
      6,691
      Latest: Amazon S3 compatible ZFS cloud with minIO gea, Mar 30, 2020 at 6:58 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
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      668
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      6,386
      Latest: VSAN 3Node - Real numbers? Rand__, Mar 29, 2020 at 2:09 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.
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      519
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      4,482
      Latest: Storage Space - lost virtual disk BestGear, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:54 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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      211
      Latest: USB Docker image PigLover, Feb 1, 2020
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      3,121
      Latest: Local Mail aggregator Rand__, Mar 28, 2020 at 2:35 AM
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    6. FreeBSD FreeNAS and TrueNAS Core
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      A place to discuss FreeBSD, ZFSguru, FreeNAS, TrueNAS Core platforms.
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      2,949
      Latest: FreeNAS 11.3 U1 and Mellanox ConnectX-3 issue chrisk2305, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:04 AM
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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:
      4,653
      Latest: High IO Wait on Proxmox Emile, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:40 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
      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      1,687
      Latest: Trying to figure out basic account/computer based sharing. Help? BoredSysadmin, Mar 11, 2020
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      6,255
      Latest: Good Bitcoin roles for data scientists? Hunter, Mar 23, 2020
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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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      386
      Latest: Looking for advice for my first Deep Learning system Cixelyn, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:09 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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      451
      Latest: Which CPU(s) are the kings in x265 encoding? i386, Mar 18, 2020
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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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      Latest: SATADOM 2 to 3 pin cables - How can I make them? jonobk, Feb 23, 2020
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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: Killing Time cperalt1, Mar 30, 2020 at 6:07 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: STH YouTube Channel - Yes we have one Wasmachineman_NL, Jan 22, 2020
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