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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: 12Gb/s ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller - $135.40 Mirabis, Jul 22, 2017 at 8:48 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: SFP+ DAC Cables? _alex, Jul 22, 2017 at 7:57 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: Basic GPU Mining Guide Vid for Ethereum pgh5278, Jul 21, 2017 at 7:28 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:
      2,636
      Latest: Massive 10TB Capacity with WD Red 10TB NAS Hard Drives gigatexal, Jul 22, 2017 at 8:07 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: BIOS Update Disaster Intel S2600CP2J Lennong, Jul 21, 2017 at 9:28 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:
      1,232
      Messages:
      9,715
      Latest: can anyone provide me the SBR for a genuine LSI 9211-8i in IT mode? BLinux, Jul 21, 2017 at 1:39 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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      Latest: Crucial MX300 1TB M.2 SSD in Supermicro E300-8D Vik, Jul 22, 2017 at 8:50 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:
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      15,715
      Latest: Gigabit + 10Gb Switches under $550 BackupProphet, Jul 22, 2017 at 8:51 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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      8,252
      Latest: SC846/847 Handle Replacement briandm81, Jul 22, 2017 at 12:05 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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      12,585
      Latest: Dual Xeon Gold 6150 in Corsair Air 540 NickTdot, Jul 22, 2017 at 4:48 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:
      645
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      4,546
      Latest: napp-it on OmniOS on ESXi - performance? gea, Jul 22, 2017 at 8:28 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:
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      Messages:
      4,331
      Latest: VM with passthrough "freezes" entire ESXi box when shutdown/rebooting guest richtj99, Jul 18, 2017 at 2:31 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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      366
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      3,303
      Latest: Windows Server 2016 Remote Desktop Services Net-Runner, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:33 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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      Latest: Rancher server & agent on same host setup question nitrobass24, Jun 30, 2017
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      2,364
      Latest: I can't use IPMIView ... Yellow monkey, Jul 20, 2017 at 5:34 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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      Latest: Looking for FreeNas hardware advice Evan, Jul 22, 2017 at 5:14 AM
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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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      2,525
      Latest: Ideal Plex Setup with Proxmox/LXC/Docker/KVM? moblaw, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:52 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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      Latest: QNAP TS-1685 vs Synology DS3617xs Battle of the NAS Behemoths! William, Jul 17, 2017 at 6:53 AM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Latest: Large Scale CPU Mining Operation nfsden, Jul 20, 2017 at 7:39 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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      Latest: will Volta Tensor Core appear in Geforce? Luke Poga, Jul 17, 2017 at 8:49 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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      Messages:
      407
      Latest: STH got a shout out on Tom's today kinda Rand__, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:43 AM
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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: Booting Raspberry PI 3 via USB SSD pc-tecky, Jul 13, 2017
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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: Suggestions on a new AIO Printer for home office pricklypunter, Jul 22, 2017 at 8:36 AM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      1,948
      Latest: Thoughts on videos on STH Drewy, Jul 21, 2017 at 1:10 PM
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