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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: NetApp 4486 for ~$280 shipped Frank Ong, Feb 24, 2020 at 2:45 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: Rosewill RSV-L4500 Jenga, Feb 24, 2020 at 2:59 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 dswartz, Feb 20, 2020 at 5:37 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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      1,620
      Messages:
      6,539
      Latest: Big 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Refresh Brings Competition Anew Patrick, Feb 24, 2020 at 1:52 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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      Messages:
      30,295
      Latest: Bifurcating x16 to 2*x8 Riser Card for M11SDV-8CT-LN4F EricO, Feb 24, 2020 at 2:26 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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      1,825
      Messages:
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      Latest: JBOD adventures with Dell PERC H710P Mini (LSI 2208) Ellen Hardin, Feb 24, 2020 at 2:55 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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      1,447
      Messages:
      13,736
      Latest: Drive that are confirmed to work with HP P410i controller Spartacus, Feb 24, 2020 at 12:30 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.
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      29,208
      Latest: Icx6450-24P XplodingData, Feb 24, 2020 at 3:14 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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      1,460
      Messages:
      12,746
      Latest: 3U 3.5" 16HDD Backplane Rand__, Feb 24, 2020 at 2:29 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:
      18,836
      Latest: HP Z820 Workstation: adding more GPUs, lacking PCIe power cables alex_stief, Feb 24, 2020 at 1:02 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:
      879
      Messages:
      6,609
      Latest: Use SMB DFS with Solaris or OmniOS. rchristophe, Feb 24, 2020 at 7:34 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:
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      6,353
      Latest: Working USB-3.0 Cards with an ESXi Server? Your name or, Feb 21, 2020 at 1:19 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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      513
      Messages:
      4,439
      Latest: Virtualize or not? Ruklaw, Feb 20, 2020 at 4:05 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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      336
      Messages:
      3,101
      Latest: how to use backblaze solomon-reed erasure code ? acquacow, Feb 24, 2020 at 12:25 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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      268
      Messages:
      2,855
      Latest: Guinea pigs needed - aka FreeNas 11.3 is out Rand__, Feb 21, 2020 at 1:53 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:
      4,605
      Latest: mdadm - Production best practices Ron Kelley, Feb 24, 2020 at 5:14 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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      Messages:
      1,674
      Latest: WD purple - can it be used for data storage? Yes or No mrkrad, Feb 17, 2020
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
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      Latest: Monero changed to the RandomX Algo. Klee, Dec 11, 2019
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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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      Messages:
      377
      Latest: Looking for advice for my first Deep Learning system nthu9280, Feb 22, 2020 at 8:26 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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      642
      Latest: SATADOM 2 to 3 pin cables - How can I make them? jonobk, Feb 23, 2020 at 9:56 AM
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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: Hardware failures in 2017 - Post yours! Patrick, Feb 24, 2020 at 2:43 PM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      2,330
      Latest: STH YouTube Channel - Yes we have one Wasmachineman_NL, Jan 22, 2020
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