Be weary of storage
2024-09-02
It sounds like simple enough advice, which it is, but unfortunately I heeded not. My 1TB hard drive of 8 years died a few weeks ago. I knew it was dying, and always thought that I would replace it soon, but it was too late. It doesn't matter too much, since most of my important things are backed up somewhere, but it's still a shame. I probably had some txt file written by a little me, which I would have never read; now gone.
A fresh start is nice though. I had multiple times tried to organize my HDD, but there were always too many things to chance, and so thus all attempts were either thwarted or only half-done. With my new drive I've decided to partition it into multiple sections, that way I don't end up just placing everything in D:/. It felt rather boring to just name the partitions things like "D:/ coding, E:/ media" etc., so I decided rather to name them after literature I like, the drive letter corresponding to the first character of the title.
I keep meaning to write down which partition stores what, so I don't forget (one of the follies of my approach), but keep doing naught. So since I'm already rambling about it, I'll just put them here:
C: Crime and Punishment — System files
D: Demons — Programming projects
E: Exodus — Games
F: The Fall — Media
G: The Gambler — Applications
H: A Happy Death — Temporary files
I've only partitioned for what I needed, with still more than half of the drive uninitialized, so I'll be adding more when I find I need it.