Today (and likely tomorrow) were moving day(s). Not for my living quarters, but rather for my data. The 60 gig hard drive on my laptop was beginning to strain under the 50 gigs of e-mail, documents, photographs and other digital epherma that I’ve produced and collected over the last 20 years, so I finally broke down and bought an 80gb SmartDisk FireLite.
It wasn’t cheap (well it was, just not relative to other, bulkier storage options), but I’m still amazed that for just over $300 I can buy an 80gb hard drive that is smaller than some PDAs (and just barely bigger than my IPAQ 4155) that runs completely off of the power from a USB port in my laptop. The drive uses USB 2.0, but since it’s just a 4200 RPM drive, it’s relatively slow — you wouldn’t want to use it for video editing.
I could use 3 or 4 more of these.