#external drive

my external hard drive is corrupted, reading as this in the disk management window:

it looks like its this problem:

I don't know how to say this.. I got sad news. My external hard drive is broke, I had all my photos there.. I had all ONEWE Vlive saved there.. I had so many projects that is lost.. So all the photos I posted here is only here now..

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So pretty but expensive ($99) considering I could get a Toshiba Canvio Basics like I’ve used before for under half the price for the same size (2TB). BUT a $5 pack of stickers meant that I was able to Master Chief-ify my little Basics guy into an awesome Halo-rific, UNSC approved™ drive!

If the vibe can be disturbed in the presence of others, it's not a vibe. True peace and solidity is being secure when you're alone with others, to not be impacted by another.

To be a light to yourself, whether someone else is dim or shining will make no difference to you, that is what it actually means to be alone.

All+one. The one amongst all who is undivided.

Un(in)divided(dividual).

You're not an individual if you must separate yourself to be who you are. Isolation is not individuality, nor is being different. Being different stems from the same root and that makes it the same, not individual. To divide yourself means you are not alone.

One who is alone is who exists without conforming to influence/impact, and that does not mean rebellion or antagonism, it's like a flower, it exists among the many yet never announces itself nor does it demand an audience, it's just there, in the garden of numerous flowers, nothing takes away from THAT flower.

It can be difficult to understand in a culture heavily inundated with the idea of individuality, but the reality is, individuality is the illusion, it projects a false sense, but it is a garden, like mushrooms, the spores spread and are everywhere, there is no distinction[only surface things to distinguish].

Mind you, demarcations are always invisible lines, meaning, it's not there. Imagined boundaries.

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Mental yield(my) - what is gathered and accumulated, collected in that collective mind

Op(operating program) - the conditions that mind meets based on idiosyncrasies shaped through the pattern set; a person programmed to believe functions in a way where their mind is constantly running ideologies such as faith, hope, etc.

Ic(intellectual conductivity) - stimulus is derived from externalities such as excessive knowledge, direction from authority, and the rest that supply the subject and the narrative wound up from a cylindrically laddered motion detect system, this cloud judges what enters the portending mobile force field.

The density and range of these containment fields vary, however, the substance of them remain the same. Fear of disturbance. Fear base.

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The basis of fear has fragmented roots that rise into branches while the root remains untouched. The branches resemble a fractal, the nature of fragmenting is to break apart, needless to say, the brokenness comes from the same family, serving the one master that also obeys this integral format and structure, in the case of fear, it is thought.

The thought entity is osmotic and backwards, reversing and spreading, deviating and distracting, cunning and helical, a chain that builds each link, memetic and clandestine in nature, in and out like the tide.

The stream of consciousness narrowed down to a drop.

Through the drop, the perspective is a prism, refracted and diffraction overlapping, complexities pour into the lens, this, the filter. A watery grave, leagues, at the surface, trickling into the mind, extracting the wave that eke out as a river splitting, providing the pond movement. The continuum.

Continuity of the drop is a drip. Impressions streaming.

Threats are perceived by the figment, an aperture inundating itself. The interference itself interfered with, builds a defense, so commences a vibration, the fluctuating disturbance. A self-creating mechanism that externalizes it's parts, escaping from view by its own merit, belie the one that beholds upholds what is being, what's been the source separates and redistributes through external sources to internalize and replicate the formula, a concoction and condition of such an apparatus self-contained, irregularity in the matrix, the matrix itself and part of that. What originates from the figment is its own imagination, integrated into a loosely based reality of projection and screen, film and reel, proponent of time.

<Time and fear go together in an interrelated relationship, symbiotic, the feature of experience. Is experience an analysis of the two? And who/what is the experienced and the entity in the experience? Is there an experiencer? Who creates the experience?>

Thinking of External Hard Drives and SD cards for File Backups

Hard Disks, Secondary Storage and Microchips

Moore's Law states that the density of electronic components in microchips would double every year based on the performance of Intel microchips. At least that is how I understand it, or how it was worded originally. Later on, it was amended to a doubling every two years. Later it was again amended to 18 months. Moore's Law was named after Gordon Moore, the founder of Fairchild Electronics, and later the co-founder and CEO of Intel.

The law itself is not a physical law, but an observation of the development of microchips. As such, it could be amended to reflect the current trends. It has since become an interpretation not only of density of microchips, but also of power, and capacity of computers as well. This is logical because users have a better understanding of the performance of computers, rather than the microchips inside the computers.

I am usually at the tail end of the trend. I don't follow the buying habits of power users or gamers, who need to have the fastest machines, or the biggest capacity. I make do with what I think I need, with some allowance to give me leeway. This results in having machine performance that is above average considering my everyday needs.

My PC History

I'm happy with an 8GB RAM, computer (desktop or notebook) with 1TB of storage, if possible. There was a long stretch of time when Moore's law was in my favor, in terms of cost. From 1988 to 2015, or thereabouts, the machines I used cost around 30,000 pesos, including printer, unadjusted for inflation. Adjusted for inflation, 30,000 pesos in 1988 is worth more than 200,000 pesos in 2020. In 1988, I was using an XT-class machine with 2x 1.2MB floppy drives, and a CGA monitor and 640kb RAM. The next machine I had was an AT-class with a 40MB hard disk and a Hercules monochrome monitor. Nowadays, the computer prices allow for a decent powered notebook or an assembled PC for about 40,000 pesos.

Lately, there has been crazy prices for secondary storage. Traditional storage is in hard disks and because the prices have continuously gone down, it is cheap to have archives in external drives. At the same time, solid state devices are becoming very popular and are slowly becoming the standard secondary storage device for notebooks. The only limiting factor is the price of SSDs. Again, at present power users and gamers choose SSDs as their secondary storage device. Additionally, high-end notebooks, by default, use SSDs.

SSDs and SD Cards

Although technically not considered as SSDs, SD cards are becoming a viable secondary storage or archive device. SD and micro-SD cards starting from 128GB and larger have started proliferating and are quite affordable. The intorduciton of the 1TB SD and microSD cards are a game changer. If these aree cheaper than hard disks, then they becomve viable archive or secondary storage devices.

In terms of read/write speeds, SD cards are still slightly slower than hard disks, and much slower than SSDs. Again, the newer model SD cards have improved speeds comparable to 7200RPM hard disks.

The first commercial 1TB SD cards were introduced in 2019. Currently, there are 1TB SD cards selling on Lazada at absurd prices ranging from 500+ pesos to as low as 200 pesos or lower. A rule of thumb whne buying online is that if its too good to be true, then most probably it isn't true. In 2019, the price of a 1TB SD card was close to $500. Now there are 1TB SD cards selling from $3 to $10.

SD Concerns

There is also the quality concern. If the read/write speed is not fast enough, then it's not worth it. There is also a concern for a large percentage of defective products. There are reviews where the buyer experienced one defective card out of the 5 they bought. Finally, SSD and SD cards have the same perception issues, regarding their lifetime. Supposedly, these devices can last up to 10 years. However, SD cards suffer from usage burnout. Each sector or an SD card can only be overwritten a finite number of times, which is around 100,000 write cycles.

If you use the SD card as an archive or backup storage device, then you would not be writing over it so much. The concern about quality comes up alongside the authenticity. If it is a fake product, then it might not last the whole 100,000 write cycles, the full capacity (1TB), and the read/write speed.

For now, I am tempted to test these cheap 1TB SD cards, if these are only 500 pesos each. I can have 4TB of backup storage for about 2,000 pesos. Current HD prices are about 7,000 pesos for a single 4TB external drive.

Three “Danish modern” made-in-Japan serving dishes in stainless steel!

An Arne Jacobsen Cylinda-Line teapot for Stelton!

A stylish 500GB external USB drive!