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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: [UK] WD 12TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive £159.99 (£13.33/TB) RTM, Jan 26, 2020 at 10:50 AM
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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 sas3 ssd's , aic card iliak, Jan 26, 2020 at 5:02 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: Supermicro X9/X10/X11 Fan Speed Control chaoscontrol, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:28 PM
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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: FiBay 10G-SFP-T-CI 10Gbase-T Adapter Review Rohit Kumar, Jan 26, 2020 at 6:32 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: Is there an EPYC Trubo Boost Clock Breakdown/Safe Max Temps Anywhere? Jeff Robertson, Jan 26, 2020 at 10:08 AM
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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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      1,799
      Messages:
      13,837
      Latest: Broadcom (LSI/Avago) HBA and RAID Controller Technical Discussion Sleyk, Jan 25, 2020 at 10:01 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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      1,425
      Messages:
      13,563
      Latest: Requirements for out-of core FEM solvers alex_stief, Jan 26, 2020 at 10:17 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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      Messages:
      28,583
      Latest: (PoE+), 10G, Fanless, NBaseT switch options Evan, Jan 26, 2020 at 6:44 AM
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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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      1,444
      Messages:
      12,596
      Latest: Supermicro EPYC 7002 PCIe 4.0 Build question regarding compatibility chrisk2305, Jan 26, 2020 at 4:37 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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      Messages:
      18,619
      Latest: Question about home "server" builds. Why are they needed? cheezehead, Jan 25, 2020 at 6:19 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:
      872
      Messages:
      6,555
      Latest: Optane NVMe for Slog/ Pooldisks or All-in-one via vdisk on OmniOS gea, Jan 24, 2020 at 9:59 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
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      658
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      6,301
      Latest: PSOD Trying to install ESXi on EPYC 7002 IamSpartacus, Jan 25, 2020 at 6:51 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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      4,412
      Latest: Client backup chris heyworth, Jan 26, 2020 at 1:07 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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      208
      Latest: Kubernetes Namespaces fossxplorer, Dec 27, 2019
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      331
      Messages:
      3,059
      Latest: Backup recommendations? perdrix, Jan 16, 2020
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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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      2,814
      Latest: FreeBSD/pfSense guest 10GbE SR-IOV VF successes? arglebargle, Jan 17, 2020
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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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      4,525
      Latest: Finally finished all the testing and ready to make then change to zfsonLinux BoredSysadmin, Jan 23, 2020 at 5:50 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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      1,668
      Latest: Very Slow Data Transfer between two Internal Volume on Synology NAS UhClem, Jan 26, 2020 at 2:06 AM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      6,254
      Latest: Monero changed to the RandomX Algo. Klee, Dec 11, 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:
      359
      Latest: ESXi or FreeNAS GPU passthrough for deep learning? Rand__, Dec 8, 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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      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
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      629
      Latest: Pinch Solenoids Dawg10, Dec 26, 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: AI/Deep Learning/Machine Learning/HPC Build Cixelyn, Jan 25, 2020 at 10:46 PM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      2,330
      Latest: STH YouTube Channel - Yes we have one Wasmachineman_NL, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:36 AM
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