📅 April 2026 ⏱ 7 min read Gary Climacosa

Taming My Noisy Homelab: How I Traced HDD Clicking and Fan Spikes Back to Software

What looked like a hardware noise problem was actually caused by workload behavior. Using iotop, sensors, Docker inspection, and CPU affinity tuning, I made my homelab dramatically quieter and cooler — with software-only changes.

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