The 8

WD has now released a portable SSD drive - $99.99 for 256 GB; $199.99 for 512 GB; and – the biggest – 1 TB for $399.99. If it’s 1 TB for $399.99 and I want 8, that’s $3199.92! https://www.wdc.com/products/portable-storage/my-passport-ssd.html#WDBK3E0010PSL-WESN
Still thinking about this one:

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Maybe today, during my lunch hour, I will run down to the Coral Ridge Mall and pick it up.

Calculation

Alex & I are going to Best Buy in Coralville today to have the Geek Squad look at his laptop regarding if anything can be done to make it faster. I was looking at the Best Buy weekly ad and came across an external hard drive with a 8 TB capacity that is on sale for $159.99, which is $140 off of the regular price or 46% - one hell of a deal!

The next question became whether or not all of my existing external hard drives would fit on a single 8 TB external hard drive. Here are my drives and their capacities, as of today:

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Drive Letter	Used	Free	Capacity
B	1.93 TB	1.70 TB	3.63 TB
Drive M & N - the WD Cloud	1.35 TB	1.32 TB	2.68 TB
U	1.60 GB	223 GB	1.81 TB
V	479 GB	452 GB	931 GB
Y	2.16 GB	1.47 TB	3.63 TB
Z	1.02 TB	808 GB	1.81 GB

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Side note: Google is awesome! I entered this string into the search box:
1.93 TB + 1.35 TB + 1.60 TB + 479 GB + 2.16 GB + 1.02 TB
and google spit out

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(1.93 TB) + (1.35 TB) + (1.60 TB) + (479 GB) + (2.16 GB) + (1.02 TB) = 6.38116 terabytes

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See for yourself -https://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&q=1.93+TB+%2B+1.35+TB+%2B+1.60+TB+%2B+479+GB+%2B+2.16+GB+%2B+1.02+TB&oq=1.93+TB+%2B+1.35+TB+%2B+1.60+TB+%2B+479+GB+%2B+2.16+GB+%2B+1.02+TB&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160k1.899.39938.0.40387.63.59.3.0.0.0.648.16553.2-1j22j14j4.41.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..19.15.5670.0..0j0i20k1j33i21k1.dhGSjqA2TSU- it's quite remarkable!

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Then, I entered

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3.63 TB + 2.68 TB + 1.81 TB + 931 GB + 3.63 TB +1.81 GB

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and got this for an answer:

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(3.63 TB) + (2.68 TB) + (1.81 TB) + (931 GB) + (3.63 TB) + (1.81 GB) = 12.68281 terabytes

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It's like a present for English majors! <grin>
Finally, this is the amount of free space I have:

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(1.70 TB) + (1.32 TB) + (223 GB) + (452 GB) + (1.47 TB) + (808 GB) = 5.97300 terabytes

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So. I have a vision for copying all of my files to a single 8 TB external hard drive, which will have its cord far FAR away from my feet so I don't accidentally cause it to fall to the ground and discontinue working, and then to manipulate the storage space so as to use my current external hard drives as backups, perhaps by file type, perhaps not. I should probably plot out my strategy so as to have a single plan and a single idea as to what it will all look like when it is done.

I'm doing this at Home

Doing this will help with the CD to MP3 conversion:
How to Control Multiple Windows PCs With One Keyboard Using Synergy

Interesting Stat

In Windows Media Player, there's a column that stores the number of times a song has been played. I was curious how many songs in my Windows Media Player library have I listened to. To do that, I needed to store which records I've listened to and which ones I have not listened to and, to do that, I used the Parental rating field to store one of two values: PlayedMoreThanOnce and PlayedNever. There is a third value that shows up - Unknown - which is a ghost record as it exists in the database but it stores no information. Strange! Given those two values, this is what I found:

 

Just for the record, this is what I see in Windows Media Player for .38 Special's "Resolution" album. I've listened to track 1 so I see this:

And for the rest of the tracks on the album that I haven't heard, I see this:

As you can see, the Parental rating column stores the number of times I've played the song, the Play count column shows the number, and the Composer column shows the spindle on which the physical CD is stored.

Reference Chart for CD Conversion

I began converting Spindle #23 the other day. https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2017/06/20/matrix-free-audio-file-converters/