drives

Computer work is not progressing as planned. As I was backing up data from my internal drive to the external, I found the external drive is kind of on the fritz and is resisting any treatments I have to offer. The only thing I can think of to remedy it is a reformat...which is exactly the sort of thing I don't want to hear, because there's not really anywhere for my data to be now if both of my drives need work.

So I'm looking at getting a new, proper external drive. I can get a 300GB drive for only around $120. Combine that with my current 200GB and I'd have half a terabyte of data storage. I would have way more space than I need...at least for the moment.

Then I might have another 80GB on top of that, from my old desktop. It apparently suffered a power surge that let the motherboard's magic smoke out. I wouldn't really have any use for that drive though. Basically I have to determine if that computer would be worth rebuilding, or if it should just be salvaged for parts.

In other news, it's good to be back in Michigan and my polymorphic head cold is all but over.