It was a day, really, like many other days in my part of the world.
The sky was grey.
Drizzle coated the outdoors.
And the postperson was tired with having to deliver me more shit.
In my late teens and early twenties, I pretty much always had portable storage in my backpack.
These were the days before lightning fast internet connections, large cloud drives, and media servers.
If you wanted to share a file or work with someone, you had to plug in.
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In other words, my new MacBook Pro shouldnt be a carbon copy of the first.
I wanted a clean slate, a fresh beginning.
To achieve this, I needed an external hard drive.
Or, should I say, an external SSD.
One of the big changes I noticed after making this decision was how much prices had changed.
A solid state drive was out of the question.
The 500GB LaCie portable SSD ($129) is cheaper than that.
Thank you, The Future.
Eventually, I settled on the 2TB version of the LaCie drive.
At this stage of my tale, I imagine youre asking why Ive come tolovethe external SSD.
Yes, I hear you say, technology advances.
Portable storage is useful, but its hardly exceptional.
On one hand, youre right.
When I moved between computers, the LaCie drive did everything I needed it to with ruthless efficiency.
It didnt necessarily warrant a goddamn ode.
But there were two moments where it truly elevated itself.
I am forever indebted to it.
Since then things have only gotten more serious.
Ive been reunited with the joy of portable storage.
The LaCie SSD is often by my side, tucked away in my cable container.
Its reminded me of the value of having a back-up close at hand.
It provides a little media library you’ve got the option to take with you anywhere.
Its a tool thats endlessly useful.
And I love it.
I hope our time together only gets better.
