So the Iomega StorCenter network hard disk flaked out this weekend. I get freaked when hard disks flake out because you never know when they're just going to die entirely. And while I had most of the work data in other places, I had about 60GB of media data that wasn't anywhere else--just got lazy and didn't setup a tertiary backup system at home. My bad. Spank me. As long you're someone hot. So there's piecemea So the Iomega StorCenter network hard disk flaked out this weekend. I get freaked when hard disks flake out because you never know when they’re just going to die entirely. And while I had most of the work data in other places, I had about 60GB of media data that wasn’t anywhere else–just got lazy and didn’t setup a tertiary backup system at home. My bad. Spank me. As long you’re someone hot. So there’s piecemeal data grabbing off the StorCenter and onto a Windows XP box. Didn’t look at that box first and suddenly filled the disk after 35GB or so. Now I have to get stuff off that one onto another one so I can keep emptying the shared disk. It’s like Greek tragedy–if the Greeks were wearing propeller beanies. And that’s when I remembered this cool little gadget I picked up at CES in January: The Tornado. Tres cool. Think of a cable coil device with a USB 2.0 connector at either end. Nothing special there. But hook it up between two Windows XP machines and it pops up its own file transfer tool. Each window sees the disk tree of both machines. Find what you want on one and then drag-and-drop or cut-and-paste to the other machine. View screenshot It’s not revolutionary but it is really handy. Fast way to go from one PC to another. No muss no fuss. The version I picked up goes from XP or 2000 to XP or 2000. No Vista on that job, but supposedly the newest Tornados do support Vista. Want one of those ’cause you know you’ll be doing that migration job a few dozen times in the next year. $60 from the manufacturer’s Web site. Technology Industry