36. Moving a Home Office With a Lot of Tech Equipment

A home office packed with monitors, computers, external drives, networking gear, and cables is one of the most stressful parts of any move. The equipment is expensive, some of it is irreplaceable (your data), and a lot of it is fragile in ways that aren't obvious from the outside. A hard drive that looks fine after a move may have sustained damage that doesn't show up for weeks. Getting this part of your move right takes more planning than packing books.

Before you start disassembling anything, back up your data. Use an external hard drive and a cloud backup service — not one or the other. Drives can be damaged in a move. Cloud services can have sync issues. Having both means your data survives even a worst-case scenario. This step costs nothing but time and can save you enormously if something goes wrong in transit.

Once your data is backed up, photograph the back of each piece of equipment before unplugging anything. The rat's nest of cables behind a desk setup takes significant time to reconstruct if you don't have a reference photo. Take multiple angles. You'll thank yourself on setup day.

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