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comment by veen

Not entirely. I'm assuming a Windows machine here, but what I am arguing for is a complete separation between the drive with your OS and all of your personal files; in my case, I have a C: drive with the OS and some small applications, and a D: drive with my file system as described above. The idea is that I can take my D: drive and plug it in someone else's computer and have all the files that I need ready to go. So my C: drive will never contain any file that I care about. This means I can do a clean install of my OS yearly, meaning that in an afternoon I can have a fast and clutter-free OS running.

Note that I didn't mention archives. Never depend on your archives for daily or weekly use, because then it isn't an archive any more. On top of the above, I have two drives that I archive copies of my D: drive on, as well as two different cloud backup services.





blackbootz  ·  2407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ok, so you're advocating two hard drives for any computer you use. I have a 250GB solid state drive on my main and only laptop (Macbook Pro) that houses both the OS and personal files, though 80%+ of my personal files are on the cloud. Archive is a misnomer, it's actually just a database/set of folders I use to organize my principal files. The other 20% of my personal files can't fit into the cloud storage solution I have without ponying up some money, though I'm not totally averse to ponying up for a decent cloud solution, which I'm sure are super cheap these days.