External Hard Drive
Apr. 17th, 2021 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grayestofghostsSo I got a new toy that I had intended on getting for a while but was also somewhat inspired by the conversations I've had here -- I got a new external hard drive. My old one is something like ten years old at this point and, while it still works, has made me nervous given its use of HD platters and the fact that the available ports are slowly becoming obsolete (the default is a firewire connector, and it's very slow without that cable). So, I shelled out a lot of change for a samsung portable ssd T7 (in blue!), which has a USB-C connector and backing up my whole computer is much faster.
But aside from backups I'm going to try to keep a library, I think. Because the kind of things I keep online are pretty ephemeral and I do try to save it, but it's super unorganized right now. I've started with organizing PDFs of knitting and sewing patterns I have, and have found a few books that I've put on. I need to back up my music library and I should probably tackle photos at some point, but that's just a whole other beast. And then what else? Maybe a backup of my blog? Something else? It's "only" one TB, but then again, I don't really have any video so I don't anticipate running out of space. Probably. Who knows.
But aside from backups I'm going to try to keep a library, I think. Because the kind of things I keep online are pretty ephemeral and I do try to save it, but it's super unorganized right now. I've started with organizing PDFs of knitting and sewing patterns I have, and have found a few books that I've put on. I need to back up my music library and I should probably tackle photos at some point, but that's just a whole other beast. And then what else? Maybe a backup of my blog? Something else? It's "only" one TB, but then again, I don't really have any video so I don't anticipate running out of space. Probably. Who knows.
