Tag: Portable Hard Drive

In an earlier post I gave my “my road warrior checklist for the car.”  Within the last year I occasionally worked as computer tech support and/or mobile techie.

Sometimes I was on location fixing a problem, writing a database program, or doing a small bit of programming on a friend’s larger program.  I enjoyed being a techie, but wouldn’t want to do it for a living.

When I’m a road warrior techie, here’s what I carry with me:

• Laptop backpack
• Laptop, extra battery, power cord
• Portable hard drive, 120 GB (Actually a laptop hard drive in an enclosure)
• Flash drives (4G, 128meg)
• CDRW – rewriteable CD’s
• DVD-RW – rewriteable DVD’s
• USB hub, 3 ports
• USB cable, A to B
• USB cable, A to mini
• Ethernet cable, 6′
• Phone cord, 6′

If I had to keep a techi backpack stocked, here’s what else I’d put in it:

• Zip ties, twist ties, and/or velcro ties
• Labels
• Small screwdriver set

What do you take with you?

Update: A (techie) friend suggested the following additions, trunk space permitting:

• Ethernet cable, wire crimpers
• Ethernet hub
• Installation CD’s