About 18 months ago, I had a disk failure in a Drobo RAID 5 array. It took two weeks to rebuild. I considered that unacceptable, and got rid of all my Drobos, replacing them with Synology boxes. On Tuesday, I had a disk failure in a larger Synology RAID 6 array. I replaced the … [Read more...]
Nexus 7 tear-down
In this post and this one, I reported on my troubles with the 2013 version of the Nexus 7. Since The tablet was semi-bricked Google washed its hands of the device Asus said they'd fix it, but any passwords or data on it were fair game, so I should remove them My … [Read more...]
A Synology 1812+ glitch
Remember this post about a Synology 1812+ failure? Well, today I had another one. Well, it wasn't the same, really. This was a transient failure. I noticed that backups weren’t completing. It took me a while to find the NAS box with the problem, since I’d neglected to label all … [Read more...]
Struggling with the Nexus 7
A reader chided me for giving up too easily with my semi-bricked Nexus 7. I decided to see if I could reflash it myself. I downloaded a set of tools from http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/ and installed them. The main window is fairly comprehensive. At first, the program … [Read more...]
A Nexus 7 meets an untimely death
My 2013 Nexus 7 died. It hangs at the Google logo during the boot process. Hard reset (Power/Vol up/Vol down) produces the same result. I looked on the web for solutions, and found some, all of which require using the Android Software Development Kit (SDK). It doesn’t seem right … [Read more...]
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