If you’re a person like me you have a recurring problem in your life. Storage. Either a physical place to store your physical crap, or a physical place to store your digital crap. Hopefully, the latter is soon to be rectified.
Being in and out of the dorms, and in and out of my dad’s condo, it goes to show the extreme smallness of spaces that humans can become accustomed to living in. Unfortunately that doesn’t always dictate the amount of stuff we have. We as humans are also very smart, and find ways to fill EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY in a space with stuff. Then when you go to move, you finally realize how much was actually there.
I suppose we should be thankful that doesn’t apply as much to hard drive space. What’s there is what’s there. (Barring compression, which in most cases doesn’t help that much anyways.) On the unfortunate side of this, instead of just searching for a nook to store some stuff, we are forced to buy new, larger hard drives to store our stuff. This I have done.
Hopefully today or tomorrow my new drives will be arriving. After installation, including the drive I already have, my system will have a total of 1.32TB of HDD space. Yes, you read right. 1.32 Terabytes.
What I’m going to fill it with? I don’t know. What I do know is that I will. Invariably through the years, I have gotten progressively larger hard drives, and said, “I’ll never fill (insert number that was huge then but is now utterly mundane)!” Then, a year or two later it was full. Then I’d get a larger hard drive, or a new system, and the cycle would repeat.
This leaves me boggling at the concept that it wasn’t too long ago, I was happy and content with less that 200MB of hard drive space, and now I’m struggling to manage with 320GB of HDD space. I just wonder how long 1.32 TB will last me.
Hopefully, with HDD cooling fans, and dual-layer dvd backups, a long time.