#external hard drive

[stinkek]

Damn, I shouldn't have reinstalled Fooocus onto an external drive, it's taking too long to load base models. I'll have to reinstall it to another internal drive. I thought the fact the drive is external only slowed down the speed of copying and moving files...

[you-must-know-this-info]

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[author-a-holmes]

I do use googledocs because it's convenient to be able to access it everywhere, and on my shitty little 10 year old chromebook, etc.

However, I also have a 4TB backup external hardrive that ALL my writing, marketing, author business, cover designs, and formatted files are kept.

I want to get a second one so I have a backup of the backup, but you cannot easily "lose" a backup hard drive or SSD of that size. It sits on my desk like a brick.

Did it cost a pretty penny? Yes. But I also don't have to worry (too much) about losing everything I've worked so hard on.

My computer died in 2021. And I couldn't afford to replace it or repair it. But I could plug my external drive into my laptop and have access to all my files.

I am begging people to use LibreOffice and personal storage devices like hard drives or USB sticks instead of relying 100% on Google Docs. LibreOffice is free and open-source, it saves files to your own computer, and it lets you save as many different file types. You can write in it, format ebooks in it, and do everything you might possibly need to do as a writer.

"Oh, but I'll lose my USB stick--" Fine, back things up in whatever cloud you use as a form of extra protection, but you should also try your absolute damnedest to also put them on some form of storage that isn't a cloud.

I know it's not accessible to everyone, but if you at all have the ability, don't rely on shit that lives on other people's computers. Especially with everything going on with AI theft and aggressive censorship of adult media. If you don't store your files on your own personal computer that you have control over, your files aren't fully yours, and they're at the whims of whoever owns the cloud.

Learn where your files are stored and how to access them. Get into the habit of backing up your files to your own personal storage. Even if you're not up for intense tech research and you don't care about how the computer actually works, please stop letting your art live in corporate clouds.

[stardxst-neo]

m.2

pros: I can hoard data better

cons: idk if my computer has a slot for an m.2 yet

a new external hard drive

pros: i can put all my LEGALLY OBTAINED MOVIES AND TV SHOWS somewhere

cons: slow transfer speeds, could die on me in a few years

Wii U

pros: pretty much an HD Wii, I can put pretendo on it, it's frutiger aero

cons: it's expensive, it's the Wii U

[ifwebefriends]

Hnnnnggggh need to put more files on the little black box…….i need to put every record of my existence on the little black box……….i need a bomb-proof shield for the little black box………….

[brokenfusevgblog]

TerraMaster D2-320 2 Bay HDD Enclosure Review

[pomanshi]

does Anyone have any external hard drive recs so that I can play the Sims 4 again

[silvermoon424]

This is your daily reminder to archive your favorite fandom stuff!!!

I've been a voracious archivist/data hoarder ever since I first got access to a computer, and it's paid off more times than I can count. Just the other day I came across a PDF copy of an analysis post for one of my fandoms. The post was made on an old forum and is the most detailed and interesting analysis of a particular story element I've ever seen. Back in like 2012 I saved the post as a PDF, because even then I saved everything I liked.

Anyway, flash forward to 2025 and I decided to see if the URL included in the document was still live. I wasn't very surprised to see that the forum is long dead. However, even the Wayback Machine had no record of this thread. If I hadn't saved a copy of it way back when, I would have never, ever been able to read this analysis again!

The Internet Archive is sadly not infallible, especially when it comes to things like forum threads. You can do your part by manually saving things to the Wayback Machine, but I also recommend keeping your own archives. Aside from just saving pages as PDFs, I highly recommend a browser extension called SingleFile that lets you archive pages as HTML files.

[littlewalken]

Don’t have room on your puter to save all your favorite online stuff? Behold external storage!

The little 64 gig thumb drive was $10 on sale, the USB powered one holds 4 terabytes, the big one which needs external power holds 12 terabytes.

I even have the internal drive from a past laptop in a case that I’ve used as a back up.

Why yes, I’ve survived several BSODs, what males you ask?

[thanksjro]

Inspired by that one JRo tweet.

[calware]

[grendel-menz]

I’ve been working 15+ hour days for the past few weeks so I haven’t been able to create much, but I’m compiling a little pdf of old and new poetry and artwork around the theme of time and grief so eyes out if that’s something that you’d be interested in

[stardxst-neo]

three hours.... three FUCKING HOURS of transferring my silly little gifs and icons, THREE FUCKING HOURS of pictures being transferred from my challenged external hard drive to my internal storage, the whole batch is only a few megabytes...

sorry I haven't been posting as much Aesthetics, it's because my EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE IS A FUCKING BITCH ASS DICK!

[rebrandedbard]

I loved a roadside flower who I met at stroke of noon

And by my careless hand his heart was plucked an hour too soon

[rogdona]

r u okay with people drawing art of your characters? (With credits ofc ^_^)

HIIIIII YES OF COURSE!!!💕💗💕💗💕💗 IF U DO IT TAG ME BC ID LOVE TO SEE ITTTTTTT💕💗💕💗💕💗💕💗💕💗

[astoldbychae]

SERVING (from the archives) 💋

There are some interesting things that have happened since moving everyone to the new save. Girl! The new year came in swinging IRL and in game, but Imma roll with it. BIG things are in store for Miss Ma'am (and the rest of the save file crew) but I just knew she would find a way to corrupt some shit (again) if I didn't let her show her fine ass face, since it's been a while. She gets on my nervessssssss

Red is truly her color. Black too! Mamas fucks up some Red and Black. Anywho, next time ya'll see her she'll hopefully have new tattoos (and new hair...amongst other things 🙃).