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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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      41,370
      Latest: LSI 9400-16i, 8e $250/180, 9300-16i $290 NIB, warranty StevenDTX, Jun 25, 2019 at 7:06 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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      Messages:
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      Latest: X299 & 7980XE ari2asem, Jun 25, 2019 at 3:58 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: Mellanox 4036 (IBS05?) gaining access. Derwood, Jun 25, 2019 at 2:35 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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      1,317
      Messages:
      5,693
      Latest: Supermicro AS-E301-9D-8CN4 Review Embedded EPYC Appliance Evan, Jun 25, 2019 at 6:32 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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      2,352
      Messages:
      27,173
      Latest: Suggestions for Asus X99WS IPMI Channel A DIMM doesn't detect properly dexvx, Jun 25, 2019 at 2:31 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:
      1,672
      Messages:
      12,773
      Latest: full height PCIE to 2 M2 PCIE mb300sd, Jun 23, 2019 at 3:28 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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      1,295
      Messages:
      12,630
      Latest: Iron Wolfs aggressively spinning down canta, Jun 25, 2019 at 7:09 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:
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      Messages:
      25,768
      Latest: Brocade ICX Series (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE switching) bit.rot, Jun 25, 2019 at 6:53 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:
      1,316
      Messages:
      11,583
      Latest: Cheap LGA 2011 Quanta 1u servers, model S210-X12RS - Am I missing something? Evan, Jun 25, 2019 at 6:41 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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      1,276
      Messages:
      17,594
      Latest: Low power 10Gbit SSD NAS + VM Host - Ryzen 3000 or Intel? DavidB, Jun 25, 2019 at 4:21 PM
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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:
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      Messages:
      6,162
      Latest: Cannot access Napp-it UI nitrobass24, Jun 24, 2019 at 10:10 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
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      Messages:
      5,964
      Latest: ESXi 6.7 shell command line very laggy response marcoi, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:48 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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      481
      Messages:
      4,256
      Latest: RDMA slow in one direction. zxv, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:43 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: Testing container VlaKl, May 14, 2019
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
      Discussions:
      312
      Messages:
      2,910
      Latest: Recommend windows version/type for Blueiris 5 VM JSchuricht, Jun 25, 2019 at 5:41 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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      253
      Messages:
      2,726
      Latest: FreeNAS Error - Cam Status: SCSI Status Error Fritz, Jun 17, 2019
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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:
      4,229
      Latest: ZoL Snapshots / Replication help nitrobass24, Jun 25, 2019 at 6:00 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:
      1,537
      Latest: Creating all-SSD NAS and syncing with upstream remote NAS Evan, May 31, 2019
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      6,092
      Latest: Who still mining? marcoi, Jun 24, 2019 at 8:17 AM
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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:
      317
      Latest: Suggestions for best 1080 TI for ML T_Minus, Jun 21, 2019 at 7:50 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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      68
      Messages:
      446
      Latest: Sharing Dual Intel Xeon E5-2650L V3 Linux-Bench Results Patrick, Jun 25, 2019 at 8:14 AM
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  6. DIY and Makers

    1. DIY and Makers Spot
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      A spot for various DIY and makers
      Discussions:
      61
      Messages:
      537
      Latest: An internal 4xSSD module for SC846/SC847 leon_pro, Jun 24, 2019 at 3:11 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: Hardware pron thread Ivan Dimitrov, Jun 25, 2019 at 12:17 PM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
      261
      Messages:
      2,280
      Latest: The state of NVM (Optane): hype or not? mbello, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:21 AM
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