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GeoCities Downtime - WD Blue SA510 1TB WDS100T3B0B Failure

Nix McRetro // 9th April 2023 // Raspberry Pi
GeoCities Downtime - WD Blue SA510 1TB WDS100T3B0B Failure
Back in late-December, and I’m talking right on 31st December 2022, GeoCities crashed hard. All thanks to poorly written firmware by Western Digital. Firmwares 52008100 and 52015100, I’m looking at you! The hardware failure of the the WD Blue SATA blade hard drive powering GeoCities was enough to take it... Continue reading

Capacitors Manufacturer Tier List Ranking

Nix McRetro // 1st April 2023 // Repairs
Capacitors Manufacturer Tier List Ranking
I’d previously linked to this list at Tom’s Hardware for my Cisco SPA. I was lucky that my capacitors were even on the list. It’s occurred to me that many do not even make it to tier 4… I forked an existing list from five years ago, I tidied up... Continue reading

TrueNAS Tinkering

Nix McRetro // 27th March 2023 // IBM PC, Nature
TrueNAS Tinkering
Sometime in October 2022 during RetroChallenge 2022/10 I started to tinker with TrueNAS Scale. I’ve been on the search for more storage for a while now. Well not more storage, but a way to store my data reliably. I learnt about magical things like ZFS, RAIDZ2, spinning rust, HPE MicroServer... Continue reading
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