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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Over-Extension3959 on 2025-12-12 11:46:21+00:00.

I am building an all Flash NAS and am wondering if 12G SAS SSDs still are something to consider in comparison to the much faster NVMe SSDs.

I do plan on having about 15 TB usable storage. I can get SAS SSDs for 67 CHF/TB but NVMe SSDs cost me at least 100 CHF/TB. (Or basically double that because i‘d be doing a 2-way mirror for each vdev.)

This is for basic documents and photography. Maybe some GIS datasets but nothing really needs extremely fast storage. All SSD, because i want something silent, hate hearing HDDs clicking away.

Are SAS SSDs still viable in 2025? I mean, they should be able to saturate the 10Gb network connection, maybe even come close to 25G. What am i missing if i go SAS instead of NVMe? Is the price difference still worth the speed increases of NVMe?

Sadly i cannot rely on used parts since that market is non-existent for parts like these here. And importing is expensive.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Lazy_Kangaroo703 on 2025-12-11 21:07:21+00:00.

As I add bits to my modest homelab, my wife is concerned that it might catch fire, especially when we are away. Now she's got me worried. I have 2 small fans to keep the kit cool.

Has anyone experienced their kit catching fire?

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/GLiNet_WiFi on 2025-12-11 02:38:18+00:00.

Hi Homelabbers,

Apologies for the wait! There were sO many high-quality entries that the mod team and I needed a little more time to choose the winners. THANK YOU ALL for participating and we truly enjoyed reading through your homelab journeys and unique projects.

Soooo,

🪇The DUO Winners (2 products each):

u/DIYprojectz

u/Valuable-Speaker-312

u/the_quantumbyte

u/TommyMcElroy

u/kevinds

🧶The SOLO Winners (1 product each):

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u/PhantomOfInferno

u/mitnik

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u/TryHardEggplant

📫Winners: Please check your Reddit DMs! You will receive a message with a form to claim your prize. Please fill it out by December 15, 2025 (PST) so we can get your gear shipped.

As promised, GL.iNet will cover all shipping costs, import taxes, duties, and fees.

Thank you again to this amazing community for letting us be a part of your lab. Keep building!

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Cortexplosion on 2025-12-11 15:18:26+00:00.

I am finally ditching 1Password after the latest price hike. I have a Proxmox cluster and plenty of resources.

I need a self-hosted solution for 5 users. The main requirement is a solid mobile app and browser extension because the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) needs to be high or she will refuse to use it. I do not mind paying a one-time license fee, but I want to own the data and kill the monthly sub.

What are you guys running that passes the family test?

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Hello awesome people

I was drowning in newsletters, receipts, and "exclusive offer" emails, and was tired of flicking left / right just to keep up with the non-stop flood.

I built out an email agent that runs in my Home lab and cleans my inbox for me continuously and automatically.

I had three constraints:

1. Cost: I didn't want to pay ~$240/year per inbox just to have a clean inbox.
2. Privacy: I wasn't comfortable piping my financial receipts and personal correspondence to a third-party AI cloud.
3. Geekery: I really wanted to understand what all the hype around NPUs was about

So, I built MAE (My Agentic Employee).

It’s a dedicated hardware device (single board computer) that sits on my desk, connects to my GMail server via IMAP, and uses NPU-accelerated inference on a single board computer to categorize and process emails for me.

The Setup:

• Hardware: Radxa Zero 3W (RK3566).
• Cost: One time cost of the board, fan + electricity.
• Privacy: Zero data leaves my local network. The AI runs entirely on the device.

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How it works: I trained a MobileBERT model specifically to classify my incoming stream into 4 buckets:

1. Transactions: (Bills, trades, invoices) -> Marked Read & Archived.
2. Feed: (Newsletters, updates) -> Marked Read & Archived.
3. Promotions: (Spam, marketing) -> Trash.
4. Inbox: (Actual humans, urgent work) -> Left alone.

I labelled 6000 emails for this, and trained the model over two rounds

The Results: After two rounds of training, the model is hitting 98.6% accuracy.

• Inference time: ~700ms per email.
• Resource Usage: ~100MB RAM, 1% CPU load. Temperature is at a stable 40 Celsius
• Life Quality: I now only get notifications for actual emails. I manually check about 3-4 emails a day instead of doom-scrolling through 50.

Next steps :

• Enclosure: I've laser cut some acrylic for the enclosure, planning to set it up along with the rest of my home server setup
• More use cases: I'm thinking of setting up Whatsapp related automation, and curious to know of more ideas

Happy to take in more ideas on what others have done and add it to my setup, or answer questions if you have any ! Sharing some pictures of the setup here, feedback is welcome !

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Kai_ on 2025-12-11 07:09:28+00:00.

Wanted to share an unconventional setup that's been surprisingly stable. Not recommending this for everyone, but figured it might be useful for others considering budget builds.

The Hardware

• Nucbox G2 - Alder Lake-N (4 cores), 12GB RAM (~$120 on sale)
• 3× dual-bay USB3 caddies (~$60 total, on sale)
• 6× 8TB WD Blue drives in the caddies
• Total setup cost: ~$180 (drives excluded)

What's Running

Proxmox as the hypervisor, with:

• TrueNAS Scale VM (6.5GB RAM) - ZFS pool with 3× mirror vdevs (21TB usable)
• 13 LXC containers: Pi-hole, Cloudflare tunnel, qBittorrent, Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Caddy, Octoprint, Smokeping, testbed, and several others
• It's also acting as a peer-to-peer file supplier for 14TB worth of ~5000 packages

The "You Shouldn't Do This" Parts

I know USB + ZFS is generally discouraged. Here's what I found:

1. SMART passthrough works pretty well actually - My caddies have decent controllers with UASP support. ZFS sees drive health fine. I watch the SMART statistics carefully, short and long runs are scheduled regularly. So far though, nada.
2. Scrubs have been running well, no errors - I was scrubbing weekly and seeing no hiccups. Last one took 22 hours, zero issues. Moving it to fortnightly.
3. USB3 bandwidth is fine - Sequential streaming for Jellyfin doesn't actually push it that hard, conventional wisdom might be a little biased by enterprise reasoning (same for the 1GB RAM per 1TB storage, which is vernacular but seems to be unfounded)
4. ZFS checksumming compensates - Even without proper SCSI error reporting, ZFS catches corruption via checksums
5. iGPU transcoding is surprisingly good - Most of the time we're watching 4K DV + Atmos passthru, but the little Alder Lake chip punches far above its weight on transcodes too. While running all the above services it still has plenty of time for 4K transcodes.

Honest Limitations

• Wouldn't trust this for full-throttle random write-heavy workloads, ZFS isn't configured with special vdevs or anything
• RAM is tight - TrueNAS gets 6.5GB, leaves ~5GB for node + containers, however they've never had headroom issues that showed up in swapping. And that's without enabling ballooning on anything
• PCIE passthrough is hardly hot-swap. I tested a physical disconnection a few times early on out of morbid curiosity, and the ZFS did go into its suspended state. Have to reboot the node to bring it back up, which takes several minutes.

Power Consumption

Probably the most important part, from a power/emissions standpoint: RAPL reports ~1.3W for the SoC at idle. Estimating ~30-40W total at the wall including the spinning drives. Haven't verified with a meter, but it seems pretty remarkable. The drives probably spin down for ~75% of the day too, leaving ~3W idle -- a light bulb. It's definitely made me question what else in life might be overengineered due to prevailing wisdom.

Would I Recommend It?

For a home media server where uptime isn't critical? It's been great. The money saved went into better/more drives instead of compute hardware.

For life or death backups? I honestly don't know. One lab isn't a backup strategy anyway, it's just part of your 3/2/1.

Curious if others are running similarly unconventional setups that have surprised them.