The Little Hard Drive That Brought Me So Much Joy Of all the little gadgets that have made my working life easier, the portable hard drive holds a special place in my heart. Even now, I smile when I remember how relieved and thankful I felt when it arrived. Who would have thought that such a tiny thing could change the scene at home? In those days, I often brought office files home to read. My working hours were filled with meetings, so the quiet time after dinner was when I could study reports and prepare for the next day. Some files came in several volumes. My husband would sometimes ask why I had to bring so many home. “I need to go through the history to know what action to take next,” I would explain. Pendrives helped for a while, but the affordable ones were only 32 or 64 GB, and larger capacities were expensive. They filled up quickly, so I sometimes spread my documents across several of them. I remember a colleague with more than ten pendrives attached to a key ring. Finding th...