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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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      43,408
      Latest: HGST Updated: SSD1600MM - HUSMM1640ASS201 - 400GB US $55.00 awedio, Oct 23, 2019 at 4:19 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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      Messages:
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      Latest: WTB: Supermicro 1U Chassis CSE-512L Patrik Dufresne, Oct 23, 2019 at 5:33 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 Falloutboy, Oct 20, 2019 at 4:18 AM
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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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      1,475
      Messages:
      6,073
      Latest: AMD EPYC 7642 Benchmarks and Review 48 Cores of Power Patrick Kennedy, Oct 23, 2019 at 9:42 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: Gigabyte MZ31-Ar0 No Display/POST alex_stief, Oct 23, 2019 at 2:27 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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      1,734
      Messages:
      13,307
      Latest: Raid 10 storage spaces vs hw controller cesmith9999, Oct 23, 2019 at 4:31 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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      1,370
      Messages:
      13,157
      Latest: Fusion-io ioDrive 2 1.2TB Reference Page acquacow, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:16 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:
      2,170
      Messages:
      27,136
      Latest: Desperate search for Arista EOS firmware BHayes, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:26 AM
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    5. Chassis and Enclosures
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      A place to discuss different chassis and enclosure options for servers.
      Discussions:
      1,376
      Messages:
      12,146
      Latest: LF high density chassis recommendations for 2.5" SSDs BeTeP, Oct 23, 2019 at 2:23 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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      1,329
      Messages:
      18,112
      Latest: Recommendation on home server? itronin, Oct 23, 2019 at 5:38 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:
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      Messages:
      6,341
      Latest: ZFS Allocation Classes // performance benchmarks gea, Oct 21, 2019 at 9:28 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:
      633
      Messages:
      6,105
      Latest: ESXI 6.5u3 - GPU passthrough to single VM poto, Oct 22, 2019 at 4:54 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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      496
      Messages:
      4,343
      Latest: S2D poor cache performance Timmerdanny, Oct 22, 2019 at 12:14 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 at 1:09 PM
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    5. Software Stuff
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      Software for backups, playing media, torrents and etc.
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      319
      Messages:
      2,955
      Latest: USB Burn Failed with Media Creation Tool costoteliyoung, Oct 23, 2019 at 2:47 AM
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    6. FreeBSD and FreeNAS
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      A place to discuss FreeBSD, ZFSguru, and FreeNAS platforms.
      Discussions:
      261
      Messages:
      2,795
      Latest: FreeNAS Cloud sync with delayed delete? Nugget, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:28 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:
      4,391
      Latest: Proxmox VE 5.0 and Docker with a Web GUI clintar, Oct 16, 2019
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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:
      162
      Messages:
      1,634
      Latest: Trying to decide: FreeNAS, Unraid, Rockstor, Proxmox, etc. Zamana, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:41 AM
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    9. Cryptocurrency Mining and Markets
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      6,189
      Latest: Finally created a private pool to learn a bit about it. Klee, Oct 23, 2019 at 4:39 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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      333
      Latest: 1T transistors, petabits of bandwidth, 18GB of L1 memory (sram) AI chip vv111y, Aug 21, 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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      68
      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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      70
      Messages:
      608
      Latest: An insane idea for temperature control Smbaker, Oct 18, 2019 at 8:50 PM
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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:
      8,986
      Latest: "Taming" home network for kids by experts for experts zer0sum, Oct 23, 2019 at 4:24 PM
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    2. STH Suggestions and Updates
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      Discussions:
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      Messages:
      2,302
      Latest: URL Shortener Software Balamut, Oct 17, 2019 at 3:03 PM
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