Lately I've been spending a lot of time worrying about how much free space I have on my drives. As drives have been getting cheaper and I've been buying more drives, I've been facing a growing storage and backup problem. For a while, I looked at building a NAS (Network-Attached Storage Unit) with RAID, but I ended up not doing it for one primary reason:

I love portability! I love the flexibility I get in my day when I can do my animation, audio, or video work on trains, in coffee shops, and while I'm out of town. My solution was to get a few 2.5" external USB drives, and carry them with them. I've been using them almost constantly, so I took the next logical step and attached them to my MacBook Pro. I used velcro, so I can always remove them. Granted, it adds a bit of bulk, but I think the convenience is worth it. Pictures below:




Now, I have 950 GB wherever I go! Woo Hoo!!