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The hardware I have is:

  - 12th Gen Intel NUC with an i7-1260P, 64GB of RAM and 1TB NVMe drive
  - Synology DS920+ with three 10TB WD Red drives, NVMe cache and upgraded RAM
  - Mikrotik hAP ac3 router
  - APC Back-UPS BX 750VA UPS

I run Proxmox on the NUC and have a Kubernetes cluster in VMs. Any stateful services mount storage from the NAS via NFS. The UPS can keep all of this up for about 30 minutes. Data gets backed up to a Hetzner storage box via Synology Hyper Backup.

I monitor the power consumption with a smart plug and Home Assistant. It averages around 100W for everything above.

The stuff that I have running includes Gitea, Matrix, Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Pi-hole, Home Assistant, and some small websites.

If you're interested, here's what it all looks like, running next to me as I type this in my kitchen/office: https://i.imgur.com/duOM2Bh.jpg

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Could you tell me more about the NVMe cache? My understanding is that it’s not officially supported on a DS920+. A few questions if you don’t mind:

- How did you go about setting it up?

- What are the benefits of adding one?

- Can you use it with 4 HDDs installed?

- Which NVMe do you use?

I upgraded the RAM on mine to 20GB and saw massive performance gains, so I’m curious if adding an NVMe cache down the line would have similar performance increases.