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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: SBE-710E-R48 Blade w/ 8 Nodes B7DW3 $200+ ljvb, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:58 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: BNIB - Intel RS3UC080 RAID / Ubiquiti US-16-XG UniFi SFP+ sw Dean, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:53 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: How to fix: BMC can't force ME to recovery mode when updating BIOS i386, Jul 3, 2018
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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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      4,365
      Latest: Intel Xeon Gold 5117 Benchmarks and Review Why Bother Evan, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:05 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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      Latest: Supermicro Xeon D / FCBGA 1667 Heatsink information enigmah, Jul 17, 2018 at 1:39 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:
      1,470
      Messages:
      11,208
      Latest: X9DRD-7LNF4 onboard LSI 2308 SR-IOV not capable? chinesestunna, Jul 16, 2018 at 9:19 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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      1,125
      Messages:
      11,131
      Latest: Asus Hyper m.2 x16 Myth, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:02 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.
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      Messages:
      20,012
      Latest: DNS Server - How to build it? pc-tecky, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:27 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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      1,126
      Messages:
      10,198
      Latest: Super Micro EPYC / NVidia thermal approved systems Myth, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:44 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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      Messages:
      15,536
      Latest: Proxmox learning build out of mostly used stuff laying around.ITS ALIVE!! again...... tonyalverez, Jul 15, 2018 at 8:00 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:
      5,281
      Latest: Help regarding different sector drives (512 vs 4k) nle, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:14 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:
      549
      Messages:
      5,332
      Latest: Troubleshooting GPU passthrough ESXi 6.5 Sully, Jul 11, 2018 at 7:15 PM
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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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      429
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      3,802
      Latest: S2D slow write (no parity & NVMe cache) Jeff Robertson, Jul 16, 2018 at 11:16 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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      158
      Latest: Docker Swarm management: Rancher, Shipyard, Portainer or other? fatiha, May 22, 2018
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      2,727
      Latest: Kon-Boot failed resetting my password moderikk, Jul 16, 2018 at 7:24 PM
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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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      227
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      2,520
      Latest: Best SATA drive for FreeNAS SLOG - Intel S3710 or S4600? anomaly, Jul 7, 2018
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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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      Messages:
      3,500
      Latest: Proxmox passthrough to Freenas Jon, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:50 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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      1,317
      Latest: Did DSM 6.2 update break Xpenology? Rand__, Jun 24, 2018
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      6,046
      Latest: Docker xmrig cryptonight universal dassiq, Jul 17, 2018 at 6:07 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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      202
      Latest: DeepLearning12 NVLink Patrick, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:48 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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      436
      Latest: Tesla P100 x 8 Linpack testing on SYS-4028GR-TXRT Patrick, Jul 1, 2018
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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:
      389
      Latest: Need a little help with building IP camera server maze, Jun 12, 2018
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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: Best Bootable dvd image i386, Jul 16, 2018 at 9:54 PM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      240
      Messages:
      2,189
      Latest: Under the hood upgrades Patrick, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:08 PM
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