This is simplicity. For Windows, it would provide something more familiar to the user. Personally, I use a MacOS PC, so I am well adapted to not using Drive letters, but my computer has 1 internal drive, and an external drive. The external drive is for backups only, and nothing else. With all of the flaws that Windows has, I do admire the Drive letter assignment. In Linux, a drive is a directory path which I believe starts with dev/. With Senitrus OS, you aren’t trying to figure out which drive is to what directory. You simply select the drive. You can also define which drive you are actually needing to use. Networked Mapped locations will simply be a letter. You would know that you are mounting your printer’s B:/ drive to Z:/ on your computer. You aren’t trying to figure out which drive is B:/ which is especially important since you don’t want start littering your personal files in the printer’s OS? drive, and yes – printers have an OS.
Next is for continuity. You know that all B:/ drives on devices is the microSD card reader. You know you should never mess with a device’s C:/ drive. Plugging a USB thumb drive will automatically give it an F:/ designation whereas A:/ will be greyed out because there is no SD card installed into the printer. You become familiar with all of the devices, and potential drives that are connected with the device. And of course E:/ is always your Senitrus Drive no matter what device you are using, and that unified Internet drive will show up as long as there is an internet connection for that device.
And while some Linux experts will voice that directories instead of drives is actually simpler, it is simpler to them. If every device had drive letter assignments, then I know that the drive is to what purpose for that particular device.
All Senitrus devices will have the following drives reserved even if the device doesn’t have a chance of having that particular device. The reserved drives are as follows:
- A:/ – SD Card reader
- B:/ – microSD card reader
- C:/ – OS/Applications
- D:/ – Secondary Drive
- E:/ – Senitrus Drive