The $2,000 SSD Trick: How a 1-Cent Piece of Tape Unlocked Enterprise Storage on My Consumer PC

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There is a specific kind of adrenaline rush we chase here at MyTechLogs Labs. It’s not buying the newest, fastest hardware the day it comes out. Anyone with a credit card can do that. No, the real rush comes from finding elite, enterprise-grade gear that the industry has discarded because it’s “incompatible” with normal computers, … Read more

How I Dropped GPU VRAM Temps by 25°C Mixing Copper and Graphite

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In the world of PC building, there are certain “Golden Rules” that you are never supposed to break. One of the biggest ones is: “Never mix thermal interface materials.” You use paste, OR you use pads, OR you use liquid metal. You do not stack them like a lasagna. But at MyTechLogs Labs, we look … Read more

How I “De-Clouded” My Smart Home Devices by Flashing Custom Firmware

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It started with a simple internet outage last Tuesday. At MyTechLogs Labs, we have redundant connections, but a primary ISP failure forced a failover. During that brief window of transition, I realized something terrifying: I couldn’t turn on the lamp on my desk. I clicked the app on my phone. A spinning wheel appeared, followed … Read more

I Brought a Dead SSD Back to Life by “Starving” It of Power

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It was 2:00 AM on a Tuesday when the silence of MyTechLogs Labs was broken by the most terrifying sound a computer user can hear: the sudden, clicking silence of a system crash, followed by a BIOS screen that simply read, “Boot Device Not Found.” I stared at the monitor, blinking in the blue light. … Read more

Turning an Old 500GB SSD into a Cloud Server using Old Laptop

Turn Old Laptop into Cloud Server

Introduction: Why I Stopped Paying for Cloud Storage We live in an era where we generate gigabytes of data daily—photos, 4K videos, and project backups. For years, I relied on Google Drive and Dropbox. But recently, two things hit me: the recurring monthly subscription costs were adding up, and the privacy concerns were nagging at … Read more