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zesty_pintoNot a lot to talk about here. Been super tired.
In the time since I last posted, we have been sorting and clearing out our closets for stuff to donate/save/toss. Finally dumped a few boxes of e-waste that was sitting around our house for almost a year. Cleared out half my wardrobe because I don't really use much in the way of shirts and pants (I am incredibly simple) which are now probably getting sorted with all the other college donations at a catholic charity sorting center somewhere.
Our working process right now is to clear the small stuff; anything we save is either stored here or in the storage space we have. It'll make some of the larger things we have easier to deal with. It's been relentless but productive; donation one day, storage next day, dump another day; In a week and a half I think we're about a quarter through.
Last few days were me sorting through old drives.
I want to say you should NEVER get multiple hard drive enclosures unless you get the same type by the way.
Why? Because almost all of them have different AC adapter formats, meaning you are going to have ten to twenty adapters in your house and you have to figure out which one is for which and even if it fits, it might not have enough power or too much power for your unit which makes your drive not operate properly.
I had to get a new dock device as a result of all this. Every single drive that I thought was dead? Only one was actually a goner. This included a 2TB drive that I visibly fried the interface circuit from because of a poor fitting connection (I replaced the board but it refused to initialize on my enclosures and I figured it was a lost cause, so finding out replacing the board really fixed it is a big W on my end).
This is a big win because I managed to harvest gigs of old things that I thought I lost. I had like 2k mp3s from artists I completely forgot about or rebought several times because I lost this data and now it's back. I have a semester of writer's workshop projects I couldn't access now in my main drive. I also found some of the oldest photos from my archives, like stuff I took back in 2006 as well as all this old MST3K and Rifftrax stuff. It's amazing.
The photos are shit, but they're there, I have them.
All the drives are going to be donated or scrapped. I left them in enclosures. Debating if they're worth either? IDE is so old that the only thing it's good for is backups anyway and the storage space feels small (biggest one is half a terabyte) lol
I guess I should just scrap them. At least I wiped all of them properly so no personal info can be pulled from them (I hope).
I do wish I cleaned this place more, but this pretty much recovered a ton for me, so I count this as a big win. I'll try to make up for it tonight by hopefully clearing out my cabinet and all the closet stuff in my room. Might be a lofty goal but it'll be good if I can do it.
Michelle's grandmother had a 90th birthday and they made a big thing out of it for obvious reasons but we set up a backdrop made by her sister, took photos, did the usual necessities. It made me realize that I had photos from her 80th as well so I put that up too since I was on a roll with finding old images.
Speaking of which, back to work.
In the time since I last posted, we have been sorting and clearing out our closets for stuff to donate/save/toss. Finally dumped a few boxes of e-waste that was sitting around our house for almost a year. Cleared out half my wardrobe because I don't really use much in the way of shirts and pants (I am incredibly simple) which are now probably getting sorted with all the other college donations at a catholic charity sorting center somewhere.
Our working process right now is to clear the small stuff; anything we save is either stored here or in the storage space we have. It'll make some of the larger things we have easier to deal with. It's been relentless but productive; donation one day, storage next day, dump another day; In a week and a half I think we're about a quarter through.
Last few days were me sorting through old drives.
I want to say you should NEVER get multiple hard drive enclosures unless you get the same type by the way.
Why? Because almost all of them have different AC adapter formats, meaning you are going to have ten to twenty adapters in your house and you have to figure out which one is for which and even if it fits, it might not have enough power or too much power for your unit which makes your drive not operate properly.
I had to get a new dock device as a result of all this. Every single drive that I thought was dead? Only one was actually a goner. This included a 2TB drive that I visibly fried the interface circuit from because of a poor fitting connection (I replaced the board but it refused to initialize on my enclosures and I figured it was a lost cause, so finding out replacing the board really fixed it is a big W on my end).
This is a big win because I managed to harvest gigs of old things that I thought I lost. I had like 2k mp3s from artists I completely forgot about or rebought several times because I lost this data and now it's back. I have a semester of writer's workshop projects I couldn't access now in my main drive. I also found some of the oldest photos from my archives, like stuff I took back in 2006 as well as all this old MST3K and Rifftrax stuff. It's amazing.
The photos are shit, but they're there, I have them.
All the drives are going to be donated or scrapped. I left them in enclosures. Debating if they're worth either? IDE is so old that the only thing it's good for is backups anyway and the storage space feels small (biggest one is half a terabyte) lol
I guess I should just scrap them. At least I wiped all of them properly so no personal info can be pulled from them (I hope).
I do wish I cleaned this place more, but this pretty much recovered a ton for me, so I count this as a big win. I'll try to make up for it tonight by hopefully clearing out my cabinet and all the closet stuff in my room. Might be a lofty goal but it'll be good if I can do it.
Michelle's grandmother had a 90th birthday and they made a big thing out of it for obvious reasons but we set up a backdrop made by her sister, took photos, did the usual necessities. It made me realize that I had photos from her 80th as well so I put that up too since I was on a roll with finding old images.
Speaking of which, back to work.
