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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: 960GB m.2 NVMe with Power Loss Protection AJXCR, May 28, 2017 at 8:37 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: Free: 8x Supermicro 2.5" Blanks/Fillers Bradford, May 28, 2017 at 8:35 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: Supermicro X9/X10/X11 Fan Speed Control Rand__, May 22, 2017
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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:
      2,267
      Latest: Netgear ProSafe XS716E Review: A Sweet 16 port 10Gbase-T Switch Evan, May 29, 2017 at 12:27 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:
      18,460
      Latest: X10SDV-4C-7TP4F Xeon D SAS Controller Overheating? Evan, May 29, 2017 at 12:26 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.
      Discussions:
      1,193
      Messages:
      9,455
      Latest: Flashing HP H220 SAS card to latest FW mervincm, May 28, 2017 at 10:53 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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      870
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      Latest: Right cabling for SAS3 12Gb/s SSD doppler_shift, May 28, 2017 at 7:21 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:
      1,238
      Messages:
      15,047
      Latest: Flash HP 649281-B21 656089-001 to Mellanox Firmware i386, May 28, 2017 at 10:53 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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      7,880
      Latest: Supermicro 846 backplane screw trumee, May 28, 2017 at 7:51 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.
      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      12,120
      Latest: Deeplearning010 - 8x GTX 1080 Ti Build (Deep learning and crypto mining) msvirtualguy, May 28, 2017 at 7:25 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:
      635
      Messages:
      4,438
      Latest: Lost network connectivity crazyj, May 23, 2017 at 6:27 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:
      435
      Messages:
      4,187
      Latest: ESXI 6(.5) - OSX with GPU Passthrough esxifan, May 28, 2017 at 11:48 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.
      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      3,179
      Latest: Moving from Windows Server 2016, to Hyper-V on Nano Server 2016. Will I need to format data drives? RamGuy, May 26, 2017 at 4:56 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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      Latest: Docker Swarm + Unifi Switch = Massive Packet Loss? nitrobass24, May 26, 2017 at 9:12 PM
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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:
      2,303
      Latest: Installing Fusion-io ioDrives on Proxmox VE 3.4 Debian Wheezy T_Minus, May 26, 2017 at 2:25 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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      Messages:
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      Latest: How does PfSense number the network interfaces? StevenDTX, May 28, 2017 at 9:52 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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      Messages:
      2,431
      Latest: Can someone please tell me how to change DNS servers in Ubuntu? Fritz, May 28, 2017 at 3:16 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: Dell (EMC) AX150i - non certified hdd replacement Hordak, May 26, 2017 at 11:18 PM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Latest: Dedicated Crypto Mining Open Compute server build. Klee, May 28, 2017 at 11:29 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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      Latest: CUDA Compute and PCIe Lanes Luke Poga, May 28, 2017 at 1:58 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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      Messages:
      391
      Latest: Intel KNL 7240 system power consumption testing dhenzjhen, Apr 21, 2017
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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: Need a rack? This is pretty neat. herby, Mar 31, 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: What Keyboard are you using? Kybber, May 28, 2017 at 11:56 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: sort Great Deals by Start Date? chilipepperz, May 28, 2017 at 7:30 PM
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