I GOT AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE TODAY. HERE’S WHY

I wrote it in a previous post where I narrated why I sold my laptop, despite the fact that I needed one. I also mentioned that I sold it to a close friend, but I am not sure I mentioned that I had not moved all my stuffs away from the laptop by the time he collected the laptop. I promised to get an hard drive to move all my stuffs to, but I was actually unable to get it on time.

I contemplated on buying it online or offline, plus, I wanted to make sure I was getting a really good one. I don’t have a laptop at the moment, so I needed to get a quality hard drive so that I would still have all my stuffs intact any time I am able to get one. I asked around for the best brand I could buy and the ‘SEAGATE’ brand was most recommended for me. I checked online and it was about 15HBD (15,000 in Naira) for 500gb, the 1TB was also ranging from 25HBD (25,000 in naira) to more than 30HBD(30,000 in Naira).

I would have actually loved to get the 1TB hard drive because of moving my things to my new laptop whenever I got one, it will also be useful to keep all my photography works. Anyways, I couldn’t go for it because I had a lot of expenses before me. I was talking to my friend about 2 days ago about ordering it online, and he told me about a place opposite our school gate where I could buy it easily.

I was glad to hear that because I had actually asked around here, especially those selling phone accessories, and they all didn’t have. I went to the shop I was directed to today and asked for the external hard drive. This is where this story gets interesting, I was expecting to see a cased box of hard drive that looked somewhat like the way power banks look, but I got this instead.

I had to ask if he was mistaken, the man was just smiled and told me that was exactly what I was looking for. He further explained that the hard drive and the case comes separately, and it’s the one they have coupled together that is sold online. He showed me the case and I was like ‘oh, now I get it😂’. I have definitely seen an hard drive before, I guess I just forgot how it looked like, plus, I already had a picture in my head and that was what I was expecting to see.

My friend (who is also the brother of the person that bought the laptop from me) told me that he has a case and that I should just come over with the hard drive only. I eventually bought the 500GB hard drive for 8.5HBD (8500 in Naira) and I made sure I bought the actual SEAGATE hard drive. I searched online before I made the payment and made sure that the logo matched.

I got to my friend’s place and we did a little funny unboxing session. Man brought out his dissecting set😂😂, we made use of one knife (I don’t know the name for it) like that to cut the nylon open. It was a very dramatic moment and I was just laughing all through, we even made videos!😂💔

We connected it to the case using this thing I don’t have a name for ( sorry), and our hard drive was ready for use.

I got to realize that the size of all the files on my laptop was 494GB🥲 I checked the folder with the heaviest size and it was my movies folder. Well, I deleted a lot and that saved me a lot of space. I was able to free the laptop and also keep my files saved safely on my hard drive.

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