My 500GB Samsung Spinpoint HD501LJ finally came in the mail this week! I’ve been uploading all my files into it. I’m a little hesitant to delete the original files since RAID 0 (e.g. no recursive back-up system) is risky with new drives, however, I’m quickly running out of space and I don’t want to get another HD. Anyway, I decided to name him John Maynard Keynes because I used to store all my movies on John Stuart Mill – now, they can share the same name. Plus, in a lot of ways Mill was a predecessor to Keynes so it all works out.

Here’s my setup now. In all, I have 5 drives (one of them has an extra partition so it appears as an additional drive) and almost 1TB of space. My computer actually has a second HD bay that is currently empty; I might get another HD but probably not any time soon:

As you can see, I name my drives after classical economists. Adam Smith is my C drive, cause he’s the father of economics and my primary drive (boot drive, OS, etc.). Malthus is Mr. Doom and Gloom, so he’s the system restore drive. David Ricardo has actually been with me since middle school (he’s been re-named many times; last iteration he was Cheddar Cheese) — but anyway, since he’s been all over the place with me I thought it was fitting to name him after the international trade guy.

Jeremy Bentham is my mini-HD. Small but important, which reminds me of Bentham because, let’s face it, he’s really only known for one thing: utilitarianism. So yeah, something small but important. Finally, John Stuart Mill is one of my favorite economists, but since he’s like en expanded version of Bentham (utilitarianism + much more!), I thought the connection between the two made sense — they’re the same size drives, but Mill is physically larger than Bentham. (I think in real life Mill was probably a lot skinnier than Bentham.)

If I get a second internal HD, I think I’ll name it after Marx — it’ll probably contain odds and ends that are interesting enough for me to keep, but not important enough to be stored on the primary HD. Kind of how I think about Marxism: interesting to learn about, not important enough to be considered relevant economic theory.

Finally, I’m saving the best for last: Milton Friedman. He’s tres cool, so I’m waiting to use that name after I get something equally cool like a the new 10,000 rpm Western Digital Raptor or a sufficiently large solid state flash drive (this probably won’t happen for years, seeing as how the largest is only 64GB right now).

Alright, I’m off to shove more stuff into my new HD. Tschuss!