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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: ebay: Supermicro X10SLE-F (Micro-Cloud node) usually under 10 Euro DanAnd, Sep 18, 2019 at 5:43 AM
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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: Sale - Ram - HDD - SSD Dbuffed, Sep 18, 2019 at 8:57 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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      415
      Latest: Maximize width on iKVM/HTML5 & Get rid of Java popup! mb300sd, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:42 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:
      5,965
      Latest: AMD EPYC 7H12 64 Cores and Even Faster New Supermicro GPU Servers Cliff Robinson, Sep 18, 2019 at 6:23 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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      Latest: Management of the PowerEdge C5000-C5220 serverx, Sep 18, 2019 at 1:19 AM
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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.
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      1,715
      Messages:
      13,149
      Latest: Replacement Heatsink 9361-8i ari2asem, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:49 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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      1,349
      Messages:
      13,027
      Latest: Fusion-io ioDrive 2 1.2TB Reference Page acquacow, Sep 17, 2019 at 7:56 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:
      2,138
      Messages:
      26,763
      Latest: Home AV / Internet / Low Voltage System (Concrete walls/floors) uppie1414, Sep 18, 2019 at 8:45 AM
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    5. Chassis and Enclosures
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      A place to discuss different chassis and enclosure options for servers.
      Discussions:
      1,359
      Messages:
      12,035
      Latest: U-NAS NSC-810A mATX Chassis jingram, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:41 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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      1,314
      Messages:
      17,976
      Latest: 2x Builds... Upgrading and a server for second house mb300sd, Sep 18, 2019 at 8:34 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:
      843
      Messages:
      6,301
      Latest: OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.05 gea, Sep 17, 2019 at 9:49 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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      Messages:
      6,082
      Latest: ESXi monitor performance cut off BoredSysadmin, Sep 18, 2019 at 7:33 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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      490
      Messages:
      4,316
      Latest: Options for NVMe raid on Windows. edge, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:32 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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      189
      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.
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      316
      Messages:
      2,936
      Latest: Can somebody tell me what the heck this is supposed to mean? Fritz, Sep 9, 2019
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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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      2,775
      Latest: Storage Server For Media and Video Editing Setup GUOGELIN, Sep 8, 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:
      479
      Messages:
      4,352
      Latest: Using DDIO and RDMA : take a deep breath... dynamis31, Sep 10, 2019
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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 at 3:18 AM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      6,152
      Latest: Dedicated Open Compute miner build- Part 2.The RandomX Edition. Raice, Sep 18, 2019 at 6:45 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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      333
      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:
      582
      Latest: The evolution of a home server nezach, Sep 13, 2019 at 9:13 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: Have I Lost My Mind? - New to me house needs network drops. Server rack in the garage... TerryPhillips, Sep 15, 2019 at 1:55 AM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      2,284
      Latest: Can we get bigger pictures? Patrick, Sep 11, 2019
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