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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: Supermicro X10SRA-F-O for $183 + ship in CDW Outlet Samir, Dec 5, 2019 at 6:46 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: Areca 1882i, 1883i, 1883ix-12 RAID cards, HP 12G SAS Expander, DDR3 ECC RAM Almighty, Dec 5, 2019 at 5:24 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: Introduction to the HP t730 Thin client - the little box that could David Smith, Nov 25, 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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      1,536
      Messages:
      6,240
      Latest: Microchip SyncServer S600 Administering Time for SC19 Patrick Kennedy, Dec 5, 2019 at 8:02 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: Overclock your AMD Epyc MrCake117, Dec 5, 2019 at 6:09 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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      1,763
      Messages:
      13,534
      Latest: Heatsink for the 9361-8i shaves off 25.2F Nicolas Voisin, Dec 5, 2019 at 2:40 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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      1,392
      Messages:
      13,331
      Latest: 8TB Sun/hgst drive showing as 7.9TB (and not 8.0TB like others) gseeley, Dec 5, 2019 at 2:02 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.
      Discussions:
      2,227
      Messages:
      27,802
      Latest: getting traffic via both 1 Gb and 10 Gb NICs with FreeNAS and ESXi setup Spartacus, Dec 5, 2019 at 2:08 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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      1,402
      Messages:
      12,355
      Latest: Rosewill RSV-L4411 Review Marsh, Dec 3, 2019 at 12:31 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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      1,353
      Messages:
      18,288
      Latest: miniITX GOD Box....Blasphemy! Venturi, Dec 5, 2019 at 5:36 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:
      863
      Messages:
      6,456
      Latest: Napp-IT --> QNAP Migration T_Minus, Dec 4, 2019 at 12:17 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:
      642
      Messages:
      6,146
      Latest: 8-controller 8-port USB 3.0 5Gbps Type-C Single PCIe x8 Slot Renesas uPD720202 card- U3X8-PCIE8XE104 ShadowFlash, Dec 4, 2019 at 10:08 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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      501
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      4,363
      Latest: Windows Storage Spaces Shadowsong, Dec 3, 2019 at 1:05 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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      36
      Messages:
      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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      Messages:
      3,005
      Latest: Fishing...any TIG stack guru's around? whitey, Nov 29, 2019 at 2:00 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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      261
      Messages:
      2,796
      Latest: FreeNAS 11.2-STABLE Available Now mackle, Nov 24, 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:
      4,446
      Latest: [SOLVED]: Troubles Automounting samba Share derian00, Dec 4, 2019 at 4:44 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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      1,642
      Latest: Block Level dedupe on Synology BTRFS VS adding more drives BoredSysadmin, Dec 3, 2019 at 10:36 AM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Latest: Monero changed to the RandomX Algo. Klee, Dec 5, 2019 at 4:34 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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      346
      Latest: Best OS and software for Machine Learning and Deep Learning Kritesh Anand, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:17 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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      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:
      624
      Latest: Modding Server Rack Back Panel Dawg10, Nov 30, 2019 at 10:10 AM
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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:
      9,084
      Latest: This week resolution: get an icon fohdeesha, Dec 5, 2019 at 2:27 PM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      2,320
      Latest: Tesla Cybertruck Real or Fake? gigatexal, Nov 25, 2019
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