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A Failed Seagate 5TB Hard Disk Drive

A Failed Seagate 5TB Hard Disk Drive

Hi everyone, Today, I’m sharing a picture of a failed Seagate 5TB Hard Disk Drive. This model is ST5000DM000. This is how it looks internally: The drive failed prematurely. It looks good. The heads are parked correctly, and it spins up. The problem seems to be in the firmware are of the disk, as it seems to seek but after that, it does a 5 soft clicks before the SATA to USB adapter begins to blink. This HDD was taken…

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Shucking a Western Digital 8TB My Book External Hard Disk Drive

Shucking a Western Digital 8TB My Book External Hard Disk Drive

Hi everyone, In today’s post, I’ll be sharing some pictures of my shucked Western Digital 8TB My Book External Hard Disk Drive. I got this hard drive as I’ve already had 2 other Seagate Hard Drives fail and needed another drive. I changed brands to Western Digital as I’ve been having a bad luck with Seagate lately. Here’s the drive’s box: The drive outside of the box: The front of it: Here, I’ve taken the drive out of the main…

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The Hidizs DH1000 DAC / AMP

The Hidizs DH1000 DAC / AMP

Hi everyone, In this post, I’d like to talk about the Hidizs DH1000 which is a Digital to Analog converter and an Amp for headphones. This device is a USB digital to analog converter (DAC) that can improve the sound quality of the music thanks to its advanced dual ES9018K2M DAC chips as well as its dual Amp chips. It features a balanced 2.5mm headphone jack as well as the standard 3.5mm headphone jack and works with any device that…

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Battery Replacement for HP Stream 7 and 8 tablets done!

Battery Replacement for HP Stream 7 and 8 tablets done!

Hi everyone, Today, I’ll share this picture of what I did during these weeks: That’s right! I’ve replaced the batteries of both my old HP Stream 7 and HP Stream 8 batteries with these Cameron Sino batteries designed for the HP Stream 7 but that also works with the HP Stream 8. You can see that there is plenty of additional space in the HP Stream 8 and that I applied a tape to secure the battery in place. Right…

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Doing some cable management to my Tablet mining rig

Doing some cable management to my Tablet mining rig

Hi everyone, Today, I spent some time in the morning doing some cable management to the area where I have my mining tablets: Those tablets are contributing to distributed computing projects that runs using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing software, which is also available for Android devices, so my Android tablets are currently contributing to the yoyo@home project and to World Community Grid if there’s no yoyo tasks available for them. You can see I made use of…

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