So excited to consolidate my mess of drives and get a big boost to my storage.
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I save hardrives from old computers because "i might lose something important!"
Im a digital hoarder. I back up my digital existence by buy a new harddrive big enough my old collection fits under like 10 percent of the new drive.
And keep all the old drives.
Theorically if the oldest drives are still readable, ill never have to worry about losing the oldest information to ransomware.
But ive been holding onto some data since before ibm released pentium. Im actually afraid to look at what i have from being a 12 year old on the internet without supervision...
To be fair, the one thing I lost that I wish I'd been able to back up was my blog which I shared on MySpace back in the day.
When they refurbished the site and got rid of all the old stuff, I was using a different email address so I missed my chance to back it up.
It was essentially a personal diary of what I got up to every single day in 2008/9. I would kill to be able to read through some of them again.
Alas, they are lost to time ๐ซก
Man I'd love to see that archive (unless it were anything personal) lol, like a modern day library of Alexandria.