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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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      39,235
      Latest: HP FlexLOM ConnectX-3 Pro 40Gb -- $31 shipped (OBO) arglebargle, Mar 21, 2019 at 12:07 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: WTB $40 worth of bitcoin AFisher, Mar 21, 2019 at 5:27 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: Broadcom (LSI/Avago) StorCLI Verbose Help nezach, Mar 13, 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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      Messages:
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      Latest: Samsung and SK.Hynix 256GB LRDIMMs for Your Server Are Here Patrick, Mar 21, 2019 at 5:14 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 X9DRi-F - Xeon E5 v2 support? hippyhappo, Mar 21, 2019 at 4:41 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:
      1,616
      Messages:
      12,316
      Latest: External raid card gregsachs, Mar 21, 2019 at 5:58 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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      1,250
      Messages:
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      Latest: STEC S1120 PCIe Install (480GB/Win10 Pro) ch_1943, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:08 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:
      1,930
      Messages:
      24,172
      Latest: Brocade ICX6450 / ICX6610 / ETC (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE) fohdeesha, Mar 21, 2019 at 4:35 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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      1,262
      Messages:
      11,173
      Latest: Hunting for 12 bay case, rack or tower, for freenas kapone, Mar 21, 2019 at 6:01 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:
      17,246
      Latest: lga3647 esxi build to host my Oracle Apps/Databases BennyT, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:24 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:
      801
      Messages:
      6,035
      Latest: FreeBSD/FreeNAS vs OmniOS/Napp-it write speeds when used as ESXi NFS VM datastore? J-san, Mar 21, 2019 at 12:33 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:
      604
      Messages:
      5,836
      Latest: NFSv3 vs NFSv4 vs iSCSI for ESXI datastores zxv, Mar 21, 2019 at 2:27 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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      473
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      4,165
      Latest: Tiered Storage Space-2016 vs 2019 gregsachs, Mar 14, 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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      Messages:
      186
      Latest: Cloud Native DevOps With Kubernetes - free book Ouraing, Mar 11, 2019
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      2,868
      Latest: Supermicro HTML5 IPMI - Change password? EffrafaxOfWug, Mar 10, 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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      250
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      2,685
      Latest: NFSv4 weirdness in ESXi 6.5 and FreeNAS Rand__, Mar 18, 2019 at 2:53 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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      Messages:
      4,095
      Latest: An interesting challenge that requires some help vl1969, Mar 21, 2019 at 8:54 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
      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      1,437
      Latest: Carve up Intel Optane 900p (280GB) for ZFS rpool + ZIL Monoman, Mar 13, 2019
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      6,080
      Latest: Docker xmrig cryptonight universal Ottohans82, Mar 18, 2019 at 1:24 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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      Messages:
      292
      Latest: took the plunge... Venturi, Feb 17, 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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      67
      Messages:
      442
      Latest: Linux-Bench: suggestion pbuscemi, Dec 28, 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:
      522
      Latest: What I can do with this stuff?? WANg, Mar 17, 2019 at 12:43 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:
      8,533
      Latest: Home Setup - Design changes marcoi, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:06 AM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
      256
      Messages:
      2,270
      Latest: tapatalk wont login or update feeds anymore ttabbal, Mar 11, 2019
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