Noisy SEDNA

12 Dec

Just got the Sedna 1U Rackmount USB 3.1 Gen II 10GBP Dual Bay Hard Disk RAID Enclosure, and while waiting for the proper disks, I’ve decided to give it a spin with some spare disks laying around. The appliance seems to be a great way to extend a home NAS, keeping the disks tidily mounted in the rack. However, there …

Saving private MacBook

06 May

Some time at late March, Apple pushed several updates for High Sierra, the last announced operating system to be supported on this Mac, and my MacBook Pro (2011, 15″, the dreadful ATi) attempted to start with a totally garbled screen, out of the blue, and barely visible artifacts on the screen in any mode whatsoever. Even if I would wait …