Penned Thoughts

When I visited USA for a month in January this year, I used to order tech gear from Amazon almost on a daily basis. And every alternate morning when I was just stepping out of the house, the receptionist would inform me that some package(s) had been delivered for me. It used to be an exhilarating feeling, seeing those boxes of varying sizes, each one concealing behind all that scotch tape a shiny new tech gizmo. Oh, how I miss those days!

Even though Amazon doesn’t run its operations in India, I’ve stumbled across a way to have items from the online store legally imported to India. Sure, there are a lot of taxes, shipping costs, and the middleman’s profits involved, but at least it’s now possible for me to buy stuff that isn’t available in India.

The first thing I ordered—the first of many, if I may add—was a Drobo FireWire Data Storage Robot. Just “Drobo”, for short. After a lengthy wait of almost a whole month, I was finally able to tear off the packaging material off the thing and lift it out of the shipping container today. And it’s pretty too.

Unfortunately, I don’t actually have any hard drives with me right now to plug into the thing and check it out, but I can at least finally claim that I have a Drobo. I doubt there are even five other people in this whole country who can say that. Heck, I’d be surprised if there was even just one person as crazy as I am!

I took some pictures and stuff but I left my memory card reader back in New Delhi, so I cannot actually show them to you. Trust me, though, it looks exactly like the one shown in the picture above. I also did an ‘unboxing’ (that is not a word) video but it’s so crappy that I don’t even want to watch it myself. I might upload it once I can access the contents of that memory card just to scare you guys, but I’ll have to mull over it.

I’ll put up a more detailed post about the Drobo once I actually start using it. For now, just know that it’s here. And I own it. And you don’t. Suckas!

Aayush