By now you probably know my backup routine: I have a two sets of drives that I alternately take to work. Each set has a mirror of my primary drives on my main machine at home.The problem is that I'm going to be going to three drives soon. Two drives are kind of manageable to cart back and forth in my backpack, but the thought of going to three was starting to scare me. Even with two I started to get worry about them knocking against each other -- with three I would be worried that I would just simply drop one of them.I was going to ante up and pick up a Pelican 1470 case
for my drives and do that. I have supreme faith in the Pelican product line -- but I don't like the cost. This isn't irreplaceable stuff, just stuff I don't really want to get broken.A few weeks ago when I was just about to pull the trigger, but I still didn't feel right about shelling out nearly $200 for a pair of cases. Then I thought about my pistol case I use to cart the pistols to and forth the range. The guns are in the safe so I pulled out a few spare drives and see how well they would fit.They just just about perfectly!I went out to Gander Mountain and picked up a couple Plano 1404 cases
and popped out the appropriate foam bits (well, mostly -- more on that later) and I had cases for the drives! I even had a $10 coupon card from them! Each case was right around $20 instead of $100. Net savings of $160.The Pelican cases are waterproof and you can probably throw them out of a plane and have everything survive. I'm just interested in having things be easily and safely carry-able. I think I got a win!As an added bonus it fits perfectly in by motorcycle's panniers![smugmug url="http://photos.vec.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=16315652_rMkem&format=rss200" imagecount="100" start="1" num="100" thumbsize="Th" link="lightbox" captions="false" sort="false" window="true" smugmug="true" size="L"]