News Summary

• Allen Cooley started noticing a spike in hard drive prices toward the end of 2025.
• He usually needs three or four portable drives for a job, and sometimes as many as five or six.
• On a recent campaign, buying that amount of new drives would have cost him $4,000 to $5,000.
• Instead, he used Claude to help him build a program that catalogs what's stored across his drives.
• It's saved him days, if not weeks, worth of work.