Month: October 2017
PCI-e bifurcation explained
PCI-e bifurcation. Split a bigger slot into more smaller ones for e.g. multiple NVME drives.
The NVME now goes to 11: Asus m.2 x16 installed
Earlier I wrote about selecting the Asus m.2 x16, a 4x NVME carrier, each with PCI-E x4. It arrived, i installed. The reason I chose this one is that a) my motherboard supports bifurcation, and b) my NVME cards were 22110 (with integral capacitors for write flush on power-loss). As you can see from the…
The curious case of the Vorke Z1, Plex, and the status bar
My living room TV is driven by a Vorke Z1, (and an ExpressVU Satellite box, and a Chromecast, and, … but this story is about the Vorke). The Vorke runs Android (7.1.2) and Plex, and connects to the basement NAS (which runs the Plex server). And it has worked pretty well for the last 9…
The home hacking arsenal gets a new tool
A bit over 30 years ago I did some manual labour in return for some aged but novel tools. The most interesting to me of these was a Tektronix 515 oscilloscope. It was a single-channel (but did have a Z-axis input), and had about ~10-15MHz bandwidth (more than enough for the z80 material I had).…
