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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: e5-2650 v2 for $75-80 or less wildpig1234, Oct 20, 2018 at 2:06 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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      Latest: FS: ES/QS Xeon Processors (Skylake, Broadwell, Haswell, IVB) and More Rand__, Oct 20, 2018 at 3:18 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: WD Mybook 8Tb shucking sparx, Oct 16, 2018 at 3:31 AM
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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: Basic BMC and IPMI Management Security Practices RTM, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:18 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: Cheap chinese x79 mobos e97, Oct 20, 2018 at 3:02 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.
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      1,524
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      11,635
      Latest: Supermicro onboard LSI3008 from IR to IT mode workingnonstop, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:00 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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      Messages:
      11,462
      Latest: How to reformat HDD & SSD to 512B Sector Size john0815, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:43 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.
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      22,109
      Latest: NIC selection help: 10GB SR-IOV and DPDK support RTM, Oct 20, 2018 at 3:10 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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      Messages:
      10,501
      Latest: Making a desk from two small racks Blinky 42, Oct 19, 2018 at 6:01 AM
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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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      1,176
      Messages:
      16,158
      Latest: Mezzanine and Backplane Connectors Chris0709, Oct 20, 2018 at 1:48 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.
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      5,492
      Latest: OpenIndiana Hipster 2018.04 Wingspinner, Oct 20, 2018 at 1:09 PM
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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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      5,489
      Latest: VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) and vCenter Server 6.7U1 released liv3010m, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:58 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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      3,951
      Latest: Storage pool planning help-home server gregsachs, Oct 14, 2018 at 11:56 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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      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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      2,775
      Latest: Preferred Enterprise Backup Software Solution? ecosse, Sep 12, 2018
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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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      237
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      2,588
      Latest: FreeNAS desktop to server build help Rand__, Oct 20, 2018 at 1:41 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.
      Discussions:
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      3,806
      Latest: ZFS Cron jobs TurboAAA, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:25 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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      1,370
      Latest: Recommended NAS for 800MB/Sec Sequential on 10Gig maze, Oct 18, 2018 at 6:19 AM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
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      Latest: Docker xmrig cryptonight universal Ottohans82, Oct 20, 2018 at 4:40 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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      271
      Latest: Speaker recognition Xavier12358, Oct 7, 2018
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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:
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      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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      Latest: literally a plank of wood touch panel MikeWebb, Oct 19, 2018 at 8:37 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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      Latest: Startups and I don’t fit: got let go yesterday LukeP, Oct 20, 2018 at 1:34 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: Your IP is blocked due to DOS attacks... Patrick, Oct 19, 2018 at 6:13 AM
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