Gough's Tech Zone

In the last post, I described my glee at receiving a very competent Sony Optiarc AD-7280S. As it would turn out, in this post, I give it some torture as I relive a bit of a hobby from my past, while trying to set a new record - the most oversped DVD burn

It's fun being on the "trailing edge" of technology, when you get to catch-up on things you've always wanted to find out about, at a price you can afford. To that extent, I've been collecting optical media and drives, enjoying the experience of handling r

Seven days to myself in London, just what did I get up to? This post follows on from the last, as I finished up in Chinatown, headed to more nearby points of interest. Piccadilly Circus Having done a lap of Chinatown, I headed towards my next point of int

The recent end-of-financial-year sales were rather interesting - I found myself spending a lot more time browsing AliExpress than I did Amazon or eBay this year which is something I wouldn…

You need an IEC cable to plug in a power station, so you go rummaging in your junk drawer and pull one out … They're all the same, right? It even says 10A on the plugs! You plug it in, …

Now that we've covered the contenders for this test, I will cover how this test will be performed and go through the results. It was a long time for me, but for you, it'll just be a few…

While I love technology, I also like optimisation, so when it comes to my daily driver phone, it's not going to be a flagship device. At the moment, I'm running a Motorola moto g84 5G b…

I've been using a rather chunky laptop as a desktop replacement for a while, but one of the annoying limitations comes down to the number of USB ports available. There are four USB-A ports an…

After recently purchasing a refurbished Dell Latitude 5420 and upgrading its internals, it liberated a 256GB KIOXIA BG4-series SSD (KBG40ZNS256G) 2230-size M.2 NVMe SSD that's somewhat worn b…

As it turns out, "thrift shopping" in Japan via the internet can be both very enjoyable as well as very dangerous. In this series of posts, I've been examining various optical med…