This is a story about growing older. Clutter, too. But set aside your snarky “Okay, old man” reactions for a moment: You may be genuinely shocked at how much you can store on external storage these days, and how tiny that storage is now, too.

For years, I’ve had a small external hard drive about the size of a hardback book on my desk. From a capacity standpoint, it’s pretty small: just four terabytes. Inside it is a collection of photos, interviews, and random data, in accordance to the “rule of three” of data backups , where data is stored in three places, including your PC.

A hard drive, though, is physically susceptible to damage. My oldest son lost a number of downloaded games that he had stored on an external hard drive after his brother jostled it off his desk, and a string of

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