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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: [DEAD] WD reds 4/8TB $90/$200 via shucking - update, 8TB reds now $180, 4TB deal looks dead. Fritz, Aug 19, 2017 at 12:35 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: FS: the gigatexal firesale continues Combos! SSDs, SAS SSDs, SFF desktops, etc... updated often Jax_the_Gnome, Aug 19, 2017 at 10:47 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: Basic GPU Mining Guide Vid for Ethereum pgh5278, Jul 21, 2017
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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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      2,751
      Latest: ASRock Rack C3000D4 Series Embedded Motherboards Announced abq, Aug 19, 2017 at 9:44 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:
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      Latest: Does HP ML30 Gen9 support NVMe SSD? Rand__, Aug 19, 2017 at 1:05 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:
      1,259
      Messages:
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      Latest: How do you read firmware version numbers Falloutboy, Aug 19, 2017 at 7:03 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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      Latest: Seagate Backup Plus 4TB Drive - Cheap 2.5" 4TB drives iamtelephone, Aug 19, 2017 at 5:32 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:
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      Messages:
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      Latest: Home Network Setup Best Practice/Questions trentk10, Aug 19, 2017 at 1:31 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:
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      8,424
      Latest: Physically securing PCI-E expander in desktop case i386, Aug 19, 2017 at 10:30 AM
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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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      12,803
      Latest: Replacing the E5-2670 "Space Heater" MiniKnight, Aug 19, 2017 at 5:03 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:
      653
      Messages:
      4,580
      Latest: SMART data in automated mail out crazyj, Aug 16, 2017 at 9:38 PM
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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:
      451
      Messages:
      4,411
      Latest: How upgrade ESXI node msg7086, Aug 18, 2017 at 9:32 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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      374
      Messages:
      3,376
      Latest: Slow LOCALHOST iperf on Windows (on esxi) i386, Aug 19, 2017 at 9:11 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: Docker Multiple IDs found with provided prefix sean, Aug 1, 2017
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      Messages:
      2,375
      Latest: Android Tablet and App for Basic Admin MiniKnight, Aug 19, 2017 at 5:04 AM
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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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      Latest: Sick and tired of FreeNAS, need alternates>>> gea, Aug 19, 2017 at 12:57 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:
      2,617
      Latest: Upgrade from Proxmox 4.4 to 5.0 Drewy, Aug 19, 2017 at 5:12 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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      Latest: Yet another scale-out storage on commodity hardware question dualamd, Aug 15, 2017 at 3:54 AM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      1,718
      Latest: Monero Pricing and What to do with XMR Thread Jeggs101, Aug 19, 2017 at 1:18 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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      Latest: Please recommend a GTX 1080 Ti card for DL Axion, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:41 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:
      422
      Latest: STH Project Xavier - Placeholder Jeggs101, Aug 19, 2017 at 1:24 PM
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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: DL585 G7 won't post with anything more than 4 GPU's...... nutsnax, Aug 19, 2017 at 12:05 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: Sharing my growth in the datacenter Yarik Dot, Aug 19, 2017 at 12:00 PM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      1,955
      Latest: FS forum suggestions Aestr, Aug 9, 2017
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