April 2023

Back in late December, and I’m talking right on 31st December 2022, GeoCities crashed hard. Its SSD had become unusable for normal writes while running firmware 52008100. Firmware, I’m looking at you! It was a very relevant suspect, though this one failed drive doesn’t prove it was the only possible... Continue reading

Recently I had the joy of replacing the capacitors on a Miss Melody ES688. The poor thing had NCK-branded caps, which are way past their best-before date. I’ve installed some Panasonics and Rubycons and it’s ready to roll. Just need a machine to test it in. Those old capacitors were... Continue reading

I’d previously linked to Tom’s Hardware’s capacitor manufacturer tier list for my Cisco SPA. I was lucky that my capacitors were even on the list. It’s occurred to me that plenty of brands don’t appear anywhere on it, even in tier 4… Being missing from the list isn’t a ranking... Continue reading