Items? You call these items?
My first, or primary, use for this tool, is, of course, transferring files back
and forth from work, or, what is basically the same thing, having them available
for work whenever (or wherever) I might need them. In addition, even though I've
got them burned onto CD, I'll copy a lecture I'm about to deliver from my hard
drive to the flash drive. This has proven to be a simpler and more trustworthy
method than burning a lecture to CD each time I make changes.
But one of the advantages of a tool such as this is that it allows working on
large files, or, when dealing with web sites, what is more or less the same, dealing
with entire folders. So among the "items" I've got on that drive are
the entirety of the Boidem (about 10MB), the entirety of my
personal web site (about 15MB) and a back-up copy of A
Digitized Life (about 12MB) from which I can work without fear of making irreversible
mistakes. That means that almost a third of the drive is taken up with materials
that I simply want to have available, whether I get around to working with them
or not. Another about 20% gets taken up by a few other web related projects for
which I keep more materials than I really need. And I recently discovered that
another 10% or more is made up of digital photographs which I originally put on
the drive in order to move to where I could burn them to a CD - a task which was
accomplished quite a while ago, meaning that I can throw these particular copies
out already and gain some well needed space.
Go to: Already full, or
Go to: Large storage space invites large files, or
Go to: Planning ahead, or
Go to: Me and Moore's Law.