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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] Xyratex HB-1235 $60 pick up only in Tampa, FL hardcore, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:30 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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      3,896
      Messages:
      25,652
      Latest: WTB SATA SSDs, socket 2011 Xeon RageBone, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:04 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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      425
      Latest: Install Mellanox Driver Proxmox VE 5.1 jwest5637, Nov 1, 2019
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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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      1,500
      Messages:
      6,159
      Latest: New Microsoft Windows Performance Monitor Deslok, Nov 11, 2019 at 3:39 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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      Messages:
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      Latest: EPYC 7002 CCD Limitations maes, Nov 11, 2019 at 6:40 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:
      1,746
      Messages:
      13,380
      Latest: 9266-8i - Getting Unexpected sense: PD = Port 0 - 3 x1:0:1-Recovered data with ECC - data rewritten, home_nerd, Nov 11, 2019 at 6:10 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.
      Discussions:
      1,379
      Messages:
      13,241
      Latest: SOLVED: I cannot format/use HGST Ultrastar DC SN200 SAS NVMe 7.68TB HUSMR7676BDP3Y1 linuxmanbg, Nov 9, 2019 at 11:16 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:
      2,195
      Messages:
      27,445
      Latest: Ruckus Wireless as an Unifi alternative? hardcore, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:50 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:
      1,389
      Messages:
      12,283
      Latest: Xyratex SBB enclosures and compatible controllers hardcore, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:13 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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      1,339
      Messages:
      18,187
      Latest: Storage server using Athlon CPU and 24HDD gea, Nov 10, 2019 at 1:47 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:
      854
      Messages:
      6,390
      Latest: ZFS and VMFS6 Space Reclamation TechTrend, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:41 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:
      638
      Messages:
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      Latest: Help choosing m.2 NVMe enterprise drives for ESXi servers Rand__, Nov 3, 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.
      Discussions:
      498
      Messages:
      4,354
      Latest: number of cpu sockets supported by windows 10 versions wildpig1234, Oct 29, 2019
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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
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      201
      Latest: Containers with macvlan network AND bridge iceisfun, Oct 19, 2019
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      3,000
      Latest: Networked storage [GlusterFS or something simillar] Shilelis, Nov 10, 2019 at 8:18 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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      261
      Messages:
      2,795
      Latest: FreeNAS Cloud sync with delayed delete? Nugget, Oct 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:
      4,412
      Latest: Proxmox environment feedback gea, Nov 10, 2019 at 1:27 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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      162
      Messages:
      1,634
      Latest: Trying to decide: FreeNAS, Unraid, Rockstor, Proxmox, etc. Zamana, Oct 22, 2019
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      6,201
      Latest: Dedicated Open Compute miner build- Part 2.The RandomX Edition. ari2asem, Nov 4, 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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      Messages:
      336
      Latest: Welcome to the Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and AI Forum PetePeterson, Nov 6, 2019 at 6:24 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:
      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
      Discussions:
      70
      Messages:
      612
      Latest: Are there any members who are experts on Electrickery sfbayzfs, Oct 31, 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:
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      Latest: Hardware suggestions to reduce power usage llowrey, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:13 AM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
      266
      Messages:
      2,306
      Latest: Pics in PMs Patrick, Nov 2, 2019
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