Preparing to say farewell to my external hard drive I've had for... geez, I honestly can't even remember. Sometime toward the end of high school, I think, so at least 7-8 years, now? It recently started randomly disconnecting/reconnecting, which didn't appear to be related to the USB cable or anything else related to that, and then I started noticing it taking a while to connect after powering up, and it'd make those "whirring" sounds that HDD's tend to make when they're on their way out...
Seeing as I don't really take advantage of an external's portability these days, though, I figured I'd save money and gain more storage by just picking up an extra internal HDD for my PC. Grabbed a 1TB WD Green drive, which arrived and got installed today. (Luckily, I had some spare parts to install it with, although I had to borrow my optical drive's SATA cable for the time being. Not like I use that often anyway.) Now, I'm just spending most of my night copying over everything (mostly 400+ GB of anime) before I get rid of the external. I may just let it run its course until it's officially dead, but I'll probably just wipe it and pack it up until I can figure out what to do with it.