It maintains your custom thumbnails, metadata, or play history that might be stored in that cache.

Close all applications, background daemons, or server software currently utilizing the drive for cache.

If the drive is new or you want to wipe it, use the standard formatting tools.

She could have reformatted, made both drives uniform, consolidated the data into one convenient repository. That’s what most of the younger volunteers wanted—less friction, a single mount point for every restored archive. But Mara thought about the 130 Holds posted on the wall: small metal plaques numbered and hammered into the lab’s timbers—evidence that someone had chosen to freeze a system exactly as it was at a crisis point. The name came from the first archive they recovered: one hundred and thirty drives recovered from a flooded office, each with its own idiosyncrasies. They never standardized. They preserved.