New toy
The good thing that happened yesterday was me buying a new external hard drive for my computer.
I can’t get over the fact that you can get 500GB for barely 100 Euro nowadays. And that they are so tiny. The one I bought is not bigger than a paperback book, and apparently that’s still quite big compared to others.
I haven’t bought much more than a memory stick in the last 3 or 4 years (and even with them it’s amazing how small they are now and what a mind-boggling capacity they have). So I’m not really up on the latest developments in the computer industry. My some-years-old machine has always been good enough for me, not only because I couldn’t afford a new one every 6 months, but also because it really is good enough for everything I want to do with it – and will be for another 2 or 3 years, I presume.
But the one thing I was running out of was space to store all my data. So I came up with the external hard drive idea. Of course I did some research into the prices online, but because I wanted one right now, I went to the big store in town and just got me the one that was on sale there. It might be a shitty one for all I know, compared to others which no doubt cost twice as much. But I tinkered around with it all evening yesterday and it seems fine to me. It does what I want it to: store my data. Fast, quite reliable from what I can see so far, and without the slightest fuzz. No installation necessary, just plug and play. And it even works on my even older laptop that still runs Windows 98. I really couldn’t ask for more.
Well, I could, maybe. I was a bit disappointed by the design, to be honest. The box says it was designed by F.A. Porsche. Not being a car expert, I just assume that this is the same guy, or at least the same firm that designs the cars. The picture that name conjures up in my imagination is something like that:
You know, something beautiful to look at, graceful, sensual, something with curves.
That, alas, is definitely not in any way a description fitting for this hard drive. It’s neither graceful nor anything else, really. In fact, I am having a hard time believing that any thought at all went into this look (I’m having an equally hard time to actually call it “design”). What it is is a silvery little box with a small green light on the front. Wow.
You could, of course, call that elegant and understated. I call it boring.
That said, I don’t care what it looks like, as long as it works.
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