08-08-2022, 02:40 AM
If you guys want to talk unusual setups, my laptop has 128 GB ram installed -- much more than I'll ever need. 64 GB of that, I turned into a persistent RamDrive, which saves itself on the hard drive when shutting down, then loads itself back into memory at power on. My OS is on the RamDrive, with Windows not to be found anywhere on my hard drives.
Drive Z: (ram drive) is my OS, rather than C:, so I have Z:/Program Files and such for the OS files, and all my data maps to a home cloud drive that's plugged into my router and not my PC or laptop. (24 TB networked drive FTW!!)
So I think it's safe to say that Windows can be configured into some very odd setups, just like Linux, with a little work and persistence! LOL!
The drives on my laptop and PC and 100% local files and just junk I download from the web, or screenshots, or whatnot. Everything of importance is on //168.128.1.6/My Drive Duo/ (that's the drives home network address, which I usually network map to a simple Drive X
, so if Windows ever decides to eat my C:/, I'll just laugh that off.
If I ever lose my X:/ though... I'd cry for a week, and be happy my most important stuff is stored on the web, with the vast majority of my network drive backed up and stored at https://www.smcneill.website. (Costs me about $150 a year, but the sense of relief for having a secondary copy online is more than worth the expense.)
If one wants security for their stuff, they have to back it up!
Drive Z: (ram drive) is my OS, rather than C:, so I have Z:/Program Files and such for the OS files, and all my data maps to a home cloud drive that's plugged into my router and not my PC or laptop. (24 TB networked drive FTW!!)
So I think it's safe to say that Windows can be configured into some very odd setups, just like Linux, with a little work and persistence! LOL!
The drives on my laptop and PC and 100% local files and just junk I download from the web, or screenshots, or whatnot. Everything of importance is on //168.128.1.6/My Drive Duo/ (that's the drives home network address, which I usually network map to a simple Drive X
, so if Windows ever decides to eat my C:/, I'll just laugh that off.If I ever lose my X:/ though... I'd cry for a week, and be happy my most important stuff is stored on the web, with the vast majority of my network drive backed up and stored at https://www.smcneill.website. (Costs me about $150 a year, but the sense of relief for having a secondary copy online is more than worth the expense.)
If one wants security for their stuff, they have to back it up!