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In the November episode of Ed & Stefano Unleashed, we explore repurposing old PCs, home lab 10GbE needs, and Ed's visit to the 45Drives Creator Summit, alongside discussions on Frigate, Home Assistant, and turning an old Xeon into a backup server. 
We also evaluate old enterprise servers versus modern PCs regarding power efficiency, diagnosing bottlenecks before upgrading, and GPU unlocking for local AI. 
Additionally, the news segment covers compromised NAS bandwidth theft, TV4's lost footage, game preservation, smart TV privacy, Spotify family plan checks, self-hosted music, an expensive audiophile network switch, and the protection of seabirds in the Azores.

45 Drive Creator Summit 2026 playlist
Ed's 45 Drives Creator Summit talk

Episode Takeaways
--Ed's first live talk at the 45Drives Creator Summit
--Frigate and Home Assistant: using cameras to detect whether a gate is open
--Giving old hardware a second job as a backup or test server
--Sleep, Wake on LAN and keeping server power costs down
--Nvidia GPU unlocking and the limits of real world AI performance gains
--Old Xeons versus small modern PCs: matching the hardware to the job
--Finding server bottlenecks before buying upgrades
--Do you really need 10GbE? Testing your network with iperf3
--MoCA and powerline networking when running Ethernet isn't practical
--Compromised NAS devices, residential proxies and unsupported software
--TV4's lost footage and why access permissions matter
--Power To The Players and the case for keeping games playable
--Smart TV microphones and privacy concerns
--Spotify family plans, Plexamp and hosting your own music
--The audiophile network switch that had us and chat asking questions
--Turning off lights to protect young seabirds in the Azores

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:42 Ed's 45Drives Creator Summit Visit
02:53 Unraid Cyber Weekend Sale
04:25 Frigate, Home Assistant and Camera Based Sensors
06:27 Community Topic: Is It Time for a Second Server?
08:29 Sam Altman, RAM and the Push Towards Cloud Computing
11:48 Ed's Old Xeon Backup Server, Sleep and Wake on LAN
13:57 Old Enterprise Hardware and Power Costs
17:43 Nvidia GPU Unlocking for Local AI
21:36 Community Setups: Old Servers Versus Low Power PCs
24:30 What's Actually Making Your Server Slow?
28:55 Wi-Fi Bottlenecks and Troubleshooting
33:01 Does Your Home Lab Really Need 10GbE?
36:05 Testing Network Speed with iperf3
41:10 MoCA and Powerline Networking
44:15 Compromised NAS Devices Selling Your Bandwidth
49:22 TV4's Lost Footage, AI and Access Permissions
53:01 Crypto Wallets and Compromised Laptops
55:28 Power To The Players and Keeping Games Playable
59:49 Could We Share Our Compute Power for AI?
1:00:41 Smart TV and Soundbar Microphone Privacy Concerns
1:02:50 Hosting Your Own Music and Plexamp
1:04:21 Spotify Family Plan Verification
1:06:54 Offline Music, iPod Mods and Self Hosting
1:08:24 The Audiophile Network Switch Debate
1:12:49 Happy Story: Lights Out for Seabirds in the Azores
1:13:56 Wrap Up

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The hosts of Ed & Stefano Unleashed are passionate about home servers, open-source tech, and sometimes going off on tangents.
The views and opinions expressed on the show are solely those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the opinions, policies, or positions of Lime Technology, Inc. This show is intended for entertainment and informational purposes only. Listeners are encouraged to do their own research, experiment responsibly, and not hold the hosts accountable for any questionable home lab decisions. Most importantly, enjoy the show!
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Critical security update, the new X4 prebuilt NAS, and Frigate as App of the Month. Here's everything that happened in Unraid this October.

Update now:
Unraid 7.3.4 includes PHP 8.4.27, which patches two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities.
Unraid 7.2.9 brings PHP security fixes and certificate updates to the 7.2 branch.

📖 Read the full October Digest.
🖥️ Shop the X4 (from $1,199).
🎥 Frigate setup guide.

IN THIS EPISODE
• Cyber Weekend Sale runs November 25–30, 2026. Details drop Nov 25.
• The team went to the 45Drives Creator Summit in North Carolina for the X4 launch and early looks at Unraid 8.
• The X4 (45HomeLab × Unraid Signature Series) is a 4-bay server with an Intel Core Ultra 5 225, ASRock B860I WiFi, 2.5GbE, Wi-Fi 6E, and a 500GB NVMe boot drive. It's configurable up to 64GB RAM, an RTX 5060, 10GbE, and an Unraid Lifetime license.
• Frigate is a self-hosted NVR with local AI object detection (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Google Coral) and Home Assistant/MQTT integration

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Alex and Ed sit down to talk about what is next for the Unraid channel and recap their trip to the 45Drives Creator Summit in Wilmington, North Carolina.
They share highlights from the X4 launch event, a Street Fighter 6 tournament, and a few sneak peeks at Unraid 8.
Ed also shares how he uses local AI on his Unraid server, from generating video and music to cloning voices and running models larger than his GPU memory. Plus, hear about a gaming failover demo and an AI that knows its Star Wars history.

In the October episode of Ed & Stefano Unleashed, we kick things off with the brand new Unraid X4 server, the latest Unraid betas, and a big thank you to ich777. Then we ask a question every home labber should think about: could your family actually use your server if you weren’t around?
Ed and Stefano take a close look at the X4, a 4-bay Signature Series server with AV1 transcoding and room for a GPU, and talk through Mover finally preserving hard links in the 7.4.0 beta. The community topic covers documenting your home lab, encryption keys, and making sure your family can still get to photos and important documents without you. Plus two new tools worth trying, Red Kite and Connected Clients.
The second half moves into tech news, including Samsung’s AI fridges being bricked by an update, dynamic pricing and supermarket WiFi tracking, LG’s smart TV data collection, running bigger local AI models on your own hardware, and what an OpenAI forum hack teaches us about securing our own self hosted services.
Episode Takeaways
-The Unraid X4: 4 bays, AV1 transcoding, and space for a GPU, from $1199
-Mover now preserves hard links in Unraid 7.4.0 beta
-Thank you ich777 for years of plugins, drivers, and game server containers
-Could your family access your server if you weren’t there?
-Why you should document your home lab and plan for encryption keys
-Red Kite and Connected Clients: two new tools to keep an eye on
-Samsung AI fridges bricked by a test firmware update
-Dynamic pricing and how free supermarket WiFi is used for tracking
-LG smart TVs, data collection, and proxy apps using your internet
-Running large local AI models using system RAM and mixture of experts
-Perplexity’s new local plus cloud AI stack
-OpenAI’s forum hack and why you should segment your home lab networks
-Switzerland trials OpenDesk as Europe moves away from Microsoft
-Where the Unraid name actually came from
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:37 The New Unraid X4 Signature Series Server
06:44 Unraid 7.3.3 RC2 and 7.4.0 Beta: Mover Preserves Hard Links
08:40 Creator Summit and a Big Thank You to ich777
12:02 Community Topic: Could Your Family Use Your Server Without You?
23:35 Red Kite: A New Monitoring and Kill Switch Container
26:48 Connected Clients Plugin
27:39 Samsung AI Fridges Bricked by an Update
32:40 Dynamic Pricing and Supermarket WiFi Tracking
40:18 LG Smart TVs: Data Collection, Microphones and Proxy Apps
45:55 Qwen, Local AI and Running Bigger Models on Your GPU
50:19 TiVo Ends Commercial Skipping
55:45 Perplexity’s Local and Cloud AI Stack
58:10 OpenAI Forum Hacked Through an Image Upload
1:00:58 Securing Your Home Lab: Docker Networks and IoT VLANs
1:04:49 The Uncola and Where the Unraid Name Came From
1:09:03 Switzerland Trials OpenDesk as Europe Moves Off Microsoft
1:16:14 Happy Story: New Zealand’s Kakapo Population Grows
1:19:10 Wrap UpWhat will you build with Unraid?
Get Started with Unraid in 15 minutes or less.
The hosts of Ed & Stefano Unleashed are passionate about home servers, open-source tech, and sometimes going off on tangents.
The views and opinions expressed on the show are solely those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the opinions, policies, or positions of Lime Technology, Inc. This show is intended for entertainment and informational purposes only.
Listeners are encouraged to do their own research, experiment responsibly, and not hold the hosts accountable for any questionable home lab decisions. Most importantly, enjoy the show!
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Welcome to the Unraid September Digest 2026 — packed into 5 minutes. Stefano walks through the latest release candidates and betas, a wave of security fixes, a brand new X4 server launch, and the app of the month.

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📦 Unraid Releases
Unraid 7.3.3 RC1 and RC2 shipped alongside 7.4.0 Beta 2 and Beta 3. RC2 includes 10 OpenSSL CVEs, 6 Samba fixes, 4 PHP patches, and 1 for Nginx — plus a Linux kernel bump to 6.6.52 and a Docker engine update. Beta 3 carries many of the same fixes and adds major improvements to Mover, Docker container templates, and a new shared task tray for background operations. Stay tuned for Stables soon!

🔒 Security Fixes
-10 CVEs patched in OpenSSL
-6 Samba vulnerabilities addressed
-4 PHP security fixes
-Nginx security update
-Unraid API now rejects unsafe redirect URI schemes
-UPN security fix included

🛠 What's New in 7.4.0-Beta.3
-Mover now preserves hard links with progress tracking enabled
-Docker container templates support multiple custom networks
-Background operations from plugins, Docker, and VMs managed via shared task tray
-Plugin update checks now run independently — slow plugins no longer block the plugins page
-Hyper-V kernel support added: storage, dynamic memory, keyboard, and virtual socket modules
-Configurable power button: shut down, reboot, or do nothing
-File Manager copy/move operations fixed for symlink depth issues
-SHFS deadlock fix for concurrent file lock requests

🖥 45Homelab x Unraid X4 — New Signature Series Server
The X4 is a compact, quiet home lab system built straight from Unraid community feedback.
-Supports 4× 3.5" drives
-Intel Quick Sync for CPU transcoding
-SFX PSU, upgradeable to 650W with GPU
-13.5" × 5.7" × 11.7" footprint, ~23 lb with drives
Starting at $1,199 — Order Yours Now

🎮 App of the Month: Crafty
Host your own Minecraft server with full player management, scheduled backups, and Tailscale support — no port forwarding required. Includes a downloadable Unraid-themed world.

👕 Merch of the Month
The Proxy Pullover — built for those chilly server room nights and available in 13 colors.

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