I live a fairly modern life and I rely on the structural integrity of hundreds of devices to make my day go straight. In fact my digital life is so pervasive, when I read a headline on the BBC news website, “Amazon shrinking at 25% in a year” I immediately thought that the stock price of the online retailer was down. How sad.

But the one thing that I rely on, the thing that’s now more vaulable than almost any other object, is my hard drive. It’s got all my photos, all my music, tons of my work it’s all taken years of careful curation/creation.

And so my ‘deep in the back of my head’ worry is that one day my drive will just spontaneously and castrophically die. And I’ll be totally screwed.

So I finally bought a back up drive to my main back up drive. A second level of redundency as it were. And what’s the only hard drive out there? Why the Lacie Brick drives, designed by Ora Ito, of course.

250Gb for under $150. Sweet.

Is there anything in your life that if you could keep a perfect back up of, you would?