In college, I got a Blue & White PowerMac G3 tower, which came with a 6GB hard drive—not too bad, at the time. Later in college, when the six gigs got a bit tight, I bought and installed a 20GB hard drive in the extra hard drive slot. Eventually, the 20GB drive (“Aragorn”) became my boot drive and main storage drive, while the original 6GB drive (“Arwen”) was reserved for MP3′s. However, as the number of CD’s that I’ve ripped, multimedia files that I’ve collected, pictures that I’ve scanned or taken, and software titles that I’ve installed has grown, 26GB of total space has become quite inadequate. Thus, when my Dad asked what kind of graduation present he could give me, I suggested a new hard drive, and a voucher for that very item is exactly what I received.
Immediately afterwards, I noticed that Best Buy had a 120GB drive on sale (plus free shipping from their online store), and I put in my order promptly. In addition, since I had no more hard drive connections in my computer, I sought out a good deal on an external firewire enclosure, which I found at NewEgg.com. With the new hard drive and the empty enclosure in hand, I removed the original 6GB hard drive, installed it in the enclosure, and replaced it with the 120GB drive.
At this point I had to decide what to name my new hard drive. I considered dropping the Lord of the Rings naming scheme—my iBook’s hard drive is named Gandalf, and I have USB flash drives named Frodo and Sam. However, I instead returned to the original plan that I had decided upon a couple years ago when I first imagined having three hard drives attached to my tower—Aragorn, Legolas, & Gimli.
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