Alright this is a bit geeky, but do you guys give your hard drives names?

I used to have two external drives; castor & pollux, and then I got an even bigger drive and named it troy.

Now I have these 2 big raided drives and I'm in the market for giving them an appropriate name, I was thinking they should be named after something big, and there should definitly be a theme.

not really, just data dump or TV or Movies or Music

you get the generally idea here..

spook1,spook2,spook3

and then I got an even bigger drive and named it troy.

Oh noes, I'm inside thermite's PC.

Mine are just C and D :S

Why don't you go for the names of stars.

Betelgeuse, Antares, Aldebaren, Rigel, etc

How much bigger can you get than stars?

http://www.psolis.com/dreamscapes/uploaded_images/betelgeuse_sun-761608.jpg

P.S. Wow, just realised Pollux is a star and you've used that name too. Great minds think alike?

edit: I use practical names myself; Windows, Data, Downloads, Storage, etc.

last edited by Seven at 19:55:55 24/Dec/09

c is "hard disk" and is 80GB

d is "terabyte" and is a terabyte

heh I used to do the same thing Inson, name drives based on size, but I like my new method

and my PC name is heardy - I am heaps inventive :p

C: - Local Disk
D: - Local Disk

maybe i am sad or just lazy

I got all mined named Mr C, Mr D and so on

RAIDFILESTORE01 500GB boot drive
RAIDFILESTORE02 about 1.2TB raid5
RAIDFILESTORE03 about 3TB raid5

C,E,F,G.

I tend to just give the drive partitions the names sysname_1.

My current systems are all named after places in Arthurian stories - eg, Castiana, Sahal, Vagonbrei.

old pc hdd used to be called the abacus
new one is called homebase

terabyte drive called moofies and telly.
original music drive is called riginals
porn is omg

the star theme sounds cool..........

typically I name mine whatever they're used for. System, Storage, Media, etc.

I don't use anything interesting for drive names, just descriptive stuff like boot, storage, media, OSX etc.

For device names I use writers like Orwell, Shakespear, Wells and Melville. Machine names
at work are taken from in-jokes we have with each other. I was thinking of migrating to different homonin names like Habilis, Neanderthalensis, Ergaster or Heidelbergensis when I feel like a change or get some new hardware.

C:
D:
Music
Games
Torrent

Box is called Penguin Box... not sure why... It was never a Linux box... but my brother named it... I think it was meant to be a linux box, but it became a win Server 2k because he couldn't be f***ed pissing around in Linux.

My Comp is names Scooter, oddly enough.

P.S. Wow, just realised Pollux is a star and you've used that name too. Great minds think alike?

Firstly, brilliant suggestion with the stars, I think I'm going to go with it.

But no I didn't choose pollux after a star: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux
Although in reality I got the names from the film Face/Off, nic cage's character was Castor Troy, and his brother was Pollux.

My current systems are all named after places in Arthurian stories - eg, Castiana, Sahal, Vagonbrei.

The names of the planets where King Arthur set off on his search for the Sangraal!

Mine is called /dev/md0

and then I got an even bigger drive and named it troy.

I'd be worried about trojans if I were you.

I'd be worried about trojans if I were you.

it's the Greeks he should worry about.

C: System
D: Data
E: Movies & Music
F: Games
G: Emus

s*** (D:)

note: if a smiley icon just popped up then your a d*******

Thinking of naming my esxi freenas vm auxiliary nas and my ns4300 nas primary nas or

A_NAS
P_NAS

gedit

My raptor is called Raptor. The others are south park characters, kenny and cartman. Although I stuffed up and kenny is the bigger drive for some reason...

c:
e:
games:
torrents:
movies:
music:

C: - Turbo Negro
E: - Blazin Azn

yeah nice try... Not gonna get me to compromise my internet security that easily!

elements

earth
wind
fire
water

i've never had more than 2 hdds so i might have to start mixing elements if i ever get mre than 4. darkness, light, ice, electricity etc etc

pr0n1, pr0n2, pr0n3, your mum.