Posts under ‘DIY’

I apologize to everyone for the looooonnnggg wait for this post. I have swapped out a few hardware components as well as OS for this NAS build. It wasn’t all pretty… and at times it felt frustrating… However, my NAS box and I have lived to tell the story. In this post I will walk [...]

After a few months work with the drobo and trying to give it NAS capabilities via TonidoPlug. I got it to work, and I’m getting same performance as the droboshare for half  the cost. HOWEVER… I’m getting 3-5mb/s Write, and 3-20mb/s Read. The speed fluctuation is related to the limited CPU and I/O resource on [...]

I have been having this annoying problem with my DVD burner… the tray won’t eject unless I use the pinhole release. After Googling, I noticed there are a lot of DW1640 and rebranded Sony drives having the same problem. However, no solution was found. So today I decided to take a crack at it and [...]