It's very tangential but what is the device shown next to the drive in the first picture? https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2020/snowcone_jb_st...

I assumed it was here to give a sense of the relative size of the drive, but after staring at this picture for two minutes I genuinely have no idea what it is.

Actually at first I even wondered if that was the drive, since it's vaguely more in the shape of a snowcone than the drive itself.