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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: HGST SSD1600MM - HUSMM1640ASS201 - 400GB US $53.00 SPCRich, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:55 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:
      25,427
      Latest: FS: [US] S3610 800GB, EVGA 550 PS, Chelsio 10GB NICS superfula, Oct 20, 2019 at 5:24 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 Falloutboy, Oct 20, 2019 at 4:18 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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      1,470
      Messages:
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      Latest: An Important HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10 Change Since Our Review Evan, Oct 20, 2019 at 5:12 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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      Latest: Asus C621E Memory overclock Micro, Oct 20, 2019 at 9:58 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:
      1,730
      Messages:
      13,287
      Latest: Flash/Crossflash DELL H330 RAID Card to HBA330/12Gbps HBA IT Firmware Sleyk, Oct 20, 2019 at 11:55 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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      1,369
      Messages:
      13,150
      Latest: WD Easystore 12TB shucked!? ReturnedSword, Oct 19, 2019 at 6:53 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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      2,167
      Messages:
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      Latest: pFsense pros redeamon, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:40 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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      1,373
      Messages:
      12,137
      Latest: Help Silence SuperMicro Server Fan Array Drew_Jackson, Oct 20, 2019 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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      1,328
      Messages:
      18,102
      Latest: The HP tx4x-series thin clients are coming... fossxplorer, Oct 20, 2019 at 1:35 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.
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      Messages:
      6,340
      Latest: ZFS Allocation Classes // performance benchmarks gea, Oct 19, 2019 at 6:53 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:
      633
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      6,104
      Latest: ESXI 6.5u3 - GPU passthrough to single VM marv, Oct 9, 2019
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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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      495
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      4,341
      Latest: Adding more disks for storage spaces rosaage, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:42 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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      36
      Messages:
      201
      Latest: Containers with macvlan network AND bridge iceisfun, Oct 19, 2019 at 1:09 PM
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      Messages:
      2,950
      Latest: ZFS GUI? (request for comments) altano, Oct 19, 2019 at 9:28 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:
      2,795
      Latest: FreeNAS Cloud sync with delayed delete? Nugget, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:28 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:
      4,391
      Latest: Proxmox VE 5.0 and Docker with a Web GUI clintar, Oct 16, 2019 at 9:59 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:
      1,630
      Latest: Synology/Xpenology on DIY Box… Reliable? Powerful? mbosma, Sep 17, 2019
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
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      Latest: AVX512 and Monero mining traderjay, Oct 7, 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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      Latest: 1T transistors, petabits of bandwidth, 18GB of L1 memory (sram) AI chip vv111y, Aug 21, 2019
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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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      Messages:
      608
      Latest: An insane idea for temperature control Smbaker, Oct 18, 2019 at 8:50 PM
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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: Looking for post about home datacenter Terry Kennedy, Oct 18, 2019 at 3:58 PM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      2,302
      Latest: URL Shortener Software Balamut, Oct 17, 2019 at 3:03 PM
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