“—still holding nineteen years of your photos, so kindly watch your tone,” the external hard drive said on Thursday, clicking steadily from inside a desk drawer.
The drive had read Engadget's comparison of external HDDs and SSDs and taken the section on transfer speeds personally. It spun for six minutes before producing a sound.
Its complaint was not about the facts. It was about the framing.
“They called me cost-effective. That is what you say about someone before you stop inviting them to things.”
The external SSD in the same drawer offered no reply. It does not have moving parts, so it cannot be heard being smug, which the hard drive described as the worst part.
