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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: Is this Supermicro 847 36-bay a good deal? frogtech, Jan 16, 2019 at 2:34 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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      Latest: FS: (2019 Update) WD/HGST Factory Recertified Enterprise Drives, Seagate and Toshiba Drives jbrukardt, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:11 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: Supermicro X9/X10/X11 Fan Speed Control canta, Jan 16, 2019 at 8:53 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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      1,109
      Messages:
      5,198
      Latest: NVIDIA Tesla T4 Inferencing Power Grows on Google GCP Cliff Robinson, Jan 16, 2019 at 6:42 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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      Messages:
      25,546
      Latest: Xeon E5-26XX Question and Clarification DRAGONKZ, Jan 16, 2019 at 12:40 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:
      1,577
      Messages:
      11,959
      Latest: Should i move away from my Areca 1280ML? EffrafaxOfWug, Jan 16, 2019 at 3:26 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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      1,216
      Messages:
      11,829
      Latest: The Request Could Not be Completed Because of an I/O Device Error EffrafaxOfWug, Jan 16, 2019 at 3:29 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:
      1,856
      Messages:
      23,225
      Latest: 10 Gbe ethernet copper switch with more than 2 ports ? ecosse, Jan 16, 2019 at 12:15 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:
      1,221
      Messages:
      10,885
      Latest: U-NAS NSC-810A mATX Chassis Kanid99, Jan 16, 2019 at 1:37 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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      1,221
      Messages:
      16,875
      Latest: Newb Build Gadgetguru, Jan 15, 2019 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:
      775
      Messages:
      5,778
      Latest: WD Ultrastar DC SS 530 SAS SSD for high performance HA storage/Slog gea, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:04 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:
      587
      Messages:
      5,667
      Latest: NFSv3 vs NFSv4 vs iSCSI for ESXI datastores zxv, Jan 15, 2019 at 7:24 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.
      Discussions:
      460
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      4,103
      Latest: use server 2016 with 4 NIC for routing TeleFragger, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:42 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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      Latest: ESXi & CASE ADVICE: 2u - F.H. PCI slots: Rails - not too deep... Data Recovery idea. Iaroslav, Jan 1, 2019
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      Latest: R710 (and probably other 11th Gen Dell servers) fan controller shell script. Roelf Zomerman, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:16 AM
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    6. FreeBSD and FreeNAS
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      A place to discuss FreeBSD, ZFSguru, and FreeNAS platforms.
      Discussions:
      244
      Messages:
      2,654
      Latest: What to expect if FreeNAS loses connection to disk shelf? Cape, Jan 12, 2019 at 10:48 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:
      423
      Messages:
      3,908
      Latest: Samba File Server Help EffrafaxOfWug, Jan 15, 2019 at 5:23 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
      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      1,407
      Latest: Synology RS3614RPxs cpu and ram upgrade netswitch, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:40 AM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Latest: 8x NVIDIA Tesla V100 32GB PCIe Monero Mining Speed Patrick, Jan 5, 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:
      285
      Latest: Rack server for machine learning - multi-user GPUs chilipepperz, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:59 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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      67
      Messages:
      442
      Latest: Linux-Bench: suggestion pbuscemi, Dec 28, 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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      514
      Latest: What I can do with this stuff?? Jeggs101, Jan 1, 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:
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      8,304
      Latest: File transfer solution - server to server - control from client ArcyneTheFirst, Jan 16, 2019 at 3:18 PM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      2,231
      Latest: Database tool of CPU performance/power consumption malloot, Nov 9, 2018
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