Homelab Hero · No. 016: your result

Muted, and still cooking. 0 Hero Points.

Throttling protects the chip for a while — it does nothing for the drives, the PSU, or the node next door, and the alarm you silenced was the only thing standing between throttling and a thermal shutdown mid-write, with the photo backup queued right behind the batch. Silencing an alarm never changed a temperature.

The lesson: The alarm is not the problem. Never mute the messenger and call it a fix.

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Homelab Hero No. 016 — I blew the call on the thermal-throttling call (0/100). Think you would call it better? Play it: https://homelabherald.com/hero/016?s=0

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