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digitaldiscipline
digitaldisciplineUpshot of the hard drive fuckery of Monday:
Suspect my old 1TB drive shit the bed, or was not happy being made part of the RAID0 array. WTFE, just going to nuke the array and go back to using a single drive as main storage.
Crucial stuff was successfully backed up to a spare drive I happened to have laying around.
Win7 has been reinstalled on the SSD drive (why do I have to disconnect all the others first? You installed just fine on the 64GB partition when that was present, why should it behave differently when I delete it and make the whole drive a single partition?). Now I need to reinstall ALL THE THINGS.
At least all my settings and shit, I can bulk copy from the backup.
I should not be sitting here saying "WHAT DO YOU MEAN 120GB IS NOT ENOUGH FUCKING SPACE FOR MY OS BOOT DRIVE AND MY PROGRAM FILES" - but Win7 is burning nearly 30 gigs between cache (16gb) and hibernation (13gb).... when the OS itself is a relatively-svelte 15GB[1]. Certain entertainment applications are just gratuitously oversized (I'm looking at you, Blizzard and EA Games - when your application is larger than the OS itself, you need to step back and re-evaluate the demands you make of your user).
[1] Alternative OS users who feel compelled to feel smug and superior can pre-emptively kiss my ass; I've been dicking around with Ubuntu enough to recognize that small kernel plus familiar GUI[2] has certain benefits, but none of those include the ability to do most of the "for fun" activities that comprise most of my computer's purpose in life. Perhaps it's a shortcoming of virtualization compounding the issue, but, yeah, I kind of *need* 3D acceleration to play video games.
[2] Despite the GUI, there is still enough CLI wrangling involved to make me throw up my hands and say, "I DID NOT CLAW MY WAY TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY JUST SO I COULD RELIVE THE 1970'S, JUST WITH ON-DEMAND FILE DOWNLOADS."
Suspect my old 1TB drive shit the bed, or was not happy being made part of the RAID0 array. WTFE, just going to nuke the array and go back to using a single drive as main storage.
Crucial stuff was successfully backed up to a spare drive I happened to have laying around.
Win7 has been reinstalled on the SSD drive (why do I have to disconnect all the others first? You installed just fine on the 64GB partition when that was present, why should it behave differently when I delete it and make the whole drive a single partition?). Now I need to reinstall ALL THE THINGS.
At least all my settings and shit, I can bulk copy from the backup.
I should not be sitting here saying "WHAT DO YOU MEAN 120GB IS NOT ENOUGH FUCKING SPACE FOR MY OS BOOT DRIVE AND MY PROGRAM FILES" - but Win7 is burning nearly 30 gigs between cache (16gb) and hibernation (13gb).... when the OS itself is a relatively-svelte 15GB[1]. Certain entertainment applications are just gratuitously oversized (I'm looking at you, Blizzard and EA Games - when your application is larger than the OS itself, you need to step back and re-evaluate the demands you make of your user).
[1] Alternative OS users who feel compelled to feel smug and superior can pre-emptively kiss my ass; I've been dicking around with Ubuntu enough to recognize that small kernel plus familiar GUI[2] has certain benefits, but none of those include the ability to do most of the "for fun" activities that comprise most of my computer's purpose in life. Perhaps it's a shortcoming of virtualization compounding the issue, but, yeah, I kind of *need* 3D acceleration to play video games.
[2] Despite the GUI, there is still enough CLI wrangling involved to make me throw up my hands and say, "I DID NOT CLAW MY WAY TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY JUST SO I COULD RELIVE THE 1970'S, JUST WITH ON-DEMAND FILE DOWNLOADS."
