It still sits in its box — I’m that blase about it. The finest storage technology 2007 had to offer — my one terabyte drive. Target had a special — I could get the Seagate ST310005EXA101-RK (Just rolls of the tongue, doesn’t it?) for $60 bucks. It’s a clearance. I got my 1TB drive because it’s a little old hat now.

I admit it. I’m old. My earliest computers didn’t have a hard drive. You were limited to about 400 Kb on a floppy disk. It went to 800 Kb and we damn near lost our minds over that.

Welcome to the party, pal!

So, a terabyte is, on some fundamental level, fantastic and futuristic to me. To be able to get it for $60 at a Target clearance sale is, indeed, an indication we live in wondrous times.

More seriously, the new drive is meant to allow me to comfortably just set Time Machine up to do its thing. I run a backup every night, but I don’t even want to think about the process of backing up my desktop to an external drive anymore for a long time. Time Machine can handle that.

It’s also a test of sorts. The Seagate ST310005EXA101-RK honsetly doesn’t have stellar reviews. Some people complain about noise. Some people have had it die on them very quickly. I read questions about the quality of the electronic components. Still, with storage, it’s OK to fail upwards — it’s still probably the best drive I’ve ever had, and it has a one-year warranty.

So, expect an occasional updates on how this drive holds up. I had a bad experience on a low-end Western Digital. We’ll see how the Seagate compares.