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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: Newegg:Lenovo ThinkServer TD340 Tower Server, Xeon E5-2403 1.8GHz 4-Core, 32GB DDR3, 2x 900GB 10K Samir, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:17 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:
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      Latest: FS: Netgear XS716T, XS712Tv2 10Gbase-T, Fortigate 60E with active support/UTM, Ubiquiti XG 6 PoE hemmy, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:51 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 chaoscontrol, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:28 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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      Messages:
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      Latest: ADOP 10GMS-30M-T 10Gbase-T Adapter Review zack$, Jan 20, 2020 at 7:51 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: Supermicro AMI Bios Password Quiks, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:43 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:
      1,795
      Messages:
      13,816
      Latest: Flash/Crossflash DELL H330 RAID Card to HBA330/12Gbps HBA IT Firmware Sleyk, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:18 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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      1,418
      Messages:
      13,530
      Latest: What are some good SATA and Nvme boot drives? i386, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:27 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:
      2,274
      Messages:
      28,471
      Latest: Looking for a dual or quad port gigabit NIC for my HP T730 for pfsense TheJaguar, Jan 20, 2020 at 8:11 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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      1,439
      Messages:
      12,572
      Latest: BPN-SAS3-846EL SAS3 backplane firmware update problem ptr727, Jan 20, 2020 at 7:52 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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      1,382
      Messages:
      18,597
      Latest: Supermicro SAS backplate, LSA 2208 and working with ZFS zecas, Jan 20, 2020 at 6:13 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:
      871
      Messages:
      6,525
      Latest: auto znapshot not working openindina gea, Jan 20, 2020 at 1:00 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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      6,257
      Latest: GPU Passthrough to Linux Plex server besterino, Jan 20, 2020 at 6:43 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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      509
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      4,409
      Latest: Windows Server : Rejoining new domain with same name, keeping profiles marv, Jan 20, 2020 at 1:16 PM
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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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      Messages:
      208
      Latest: Kubernetes Namespaces fossxplorer, Dec 27, 2019
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      331
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      3,059
      Latest: Backup recommendations? perdrix, Jan 16, 2020 at 4:52 AM
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    6. FreeBSD and FreeNAS
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      A place to discuss FreeBSD, ZFSguru, and FreeNAS platforms.
      Discussions:
      264
      Messages:
      2,814
      Latest: FreeBSD/pfSense guest 10GbE SR-IOV VF successes? arglebargle, Jan 17, 2020 at 6:27 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.
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      4,520
      Latest: Finally finished all the testing and ready to make then change to zfsonLinux Rand__, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:30 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
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      Messages:
      1,666
      Latest: SAMBA share via hostname not working in Windows 10 acquacow, Jan 18, 2020 at 8:57 PM
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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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      359
      Latest: ESXi or FreeNAS GPU passthrough for deep learning? Rand__, Dec 8, 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:
      629
      Latest: Pinch Solenoids Dawg10, Dec 26, 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.
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      Messages:
      9,264
      Latest: Joke/Mishap Thread - Post all your funny and shitty ideas/experiences/thoughts Markess, Jan 20, 2020 at 2:11 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: Pics in PMs T_Minus, Jan 5, 2020
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