IT’S NOT JUST BACKING UP FILES, IT’S PRESERVING MY HISTORY
The Seagate One Touch SSD promises shock resistance, good news for someone like me who has destroyed more hard drives than I can count
The past months have been a lesson on the importance of preserving history—and I don’t just mean the country’s history (although isn’t that the biggest lesson of the year?) but also our personal history.
Both my grandmothers died this year (what a crappy year, indeed), and as their eldest grandchild, I had the responsibility of preparing slideshows so we could look back on the lives they lived. This meant going through their things, sifting through photographs, opening envelopes and folders, and being surprised by what they did and didn’t keep—notebooks filled with scribbles, letters, postcards, wedding albums, receipts, recipes, grocery lists. I found myself wishing they kept more photos from their childhood.
The death of a loved one often makes us reflect on our own mortality and I thought about what my family would have to comb through when it’s my turn to go. A great big mess, that’s what. It’s not just the copious amounts of mementos I am prone to holding on to. I am simply terrible at organizing my things, my digital files included.
Making sense of chaos
My desktop is in such disarray that the sight of it makes my friends gasp. I do not have a copy of every article I’ve ever written. My photos are scattered across multiple phones, SD cards and hard drives I can no longer access. I’ve tried to make sense of my chaos when the rare desire to get more organized hits, but I often give up in the midst of Marie Kondo-ing my life because the process takes forever. Of course it does, when you have a bazillion files and things and trash you need to categorize.
I’ve been trying to organize my physical clutter by junk journaling—and I’ve actually managed to reduce years’ worth of souvenirs into neat volumes of scrapbooks. Maybe it was time to dive into the chaos of my digital files again and bring some order into my universe.
Enter the Seagate One Touch SSD (that’s solid state drive for nontechie folks). Sleek, stylish and small (it fits in the palm of my hand!), it promises to be really fast with read/write speeds of up to 1,030 megabytes per second. And speed is good given the amount of files I need to transfer—I have over 50,000 photos in one phone alone.
The Seagate One Touch SSD works with Mac and Windows. It was compatible with my Macbook, no special setup needed, just plug and get to work. It uses USB 3.2 Gen 2 USB-C technology and comes with USB-C and USB 3.0 cables.
It also works with Android mobile devices—use the Seagate Mobile Touch app to back up your files and give yourself more space for photos and videos (because I know I’m not the only one who takes way too many photos with my phone).
Space for everything
My life flashed before my eyes as I moved photos from my cloud storage to the Seagate One Touch: the many, many food pics, the bad pandemic DIY haircuts I gave myself, trips to the beach with my nephews, lots of Zoom screenshots and, of course, photos of my dogs. I organized them into tidy folders and freed up space in my cloud which, for weeks upon weeks, had been reminding me that it was full.
I backed up the beginnings of books I have yet to finish, article drafts, and hours and hours worth of interviews. With 1 terrabyte of space (there are 500-gigabyte and 2-TB units as well), there’s room for everything.
Durability
Apart from the speed, the handy size and the color (it’s a pretty blue but there are black and silver models as well), another thing I love about the Seagate One Touch is the promise of durability. It’s shock resistant and can survive being dropped from a height of up to 2 meters. This is great news for a person like me who has destroyed more hard drives than I can count. (I am not kidding, my monster dog chewed up the last hard drive I used.) Good to know that I can take the Seagate One Touch with me when I go out without worrying that I wouldn’t be able to access my files again.
Plus, Seagate One Touch (both the SSDs and the HDDs) come with Rescue Data Recovery Services to help users against data loss and with file retrieval.
The drive also comes with a one-year complimentary subscription to Mylio Create and a four-month complimentary membership to Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan, both of which I have yet to try. Right now, my priority is preserving my history.
Whether you’re a student juggling all your class requirements, a content creator in need of more space or a messy person like me, the Seagate One Touch SSD is a great choice for portable storage.
Now if only I can be as fast at organizing my files as it is at transferring them. INQ
The Seagate One Touch SSD is available through Seagate’s authorized reseller partners, and Seagate official stores on Shopee and Lazada.