Name My Harddrive!
 

Okay, my new G5 will be here Monday :cool: and I've having some "writer's block" when it comes to naming the new drive.

It's coming with a 160GB internal and I have a 160GB and a 15GB external firewire drives that'll be used with it, too.

My current G4 has 4 drives: 60GB "Big", 120GB "Bigger", 160GB "Biggest", & 15GB "Lil' Bit". They used to be named, "Sol", "Terra", "Luna", "Mars" (with corresponding icons) just to give you an idea on how my mind works.

This is my computer at work, so it can't be "Porn" and "More Porn" if that's what you're thinking.

Gracias!

Joe

Umm....C D E and F :)

mines multiple names, it's / and /home and /www

Supersize!

I name all my drives as comic book characters, and whever possible the drive letter corresponds with the drive letter

IE C:/ = Cyclops
H:/ = Hulk (that's the biggest one too)

Mine are Bigbox and Fatbox. Subsequent ones will probably be named in a similar fashion - Giantbox, Hugebox, Gargantbox, Godbox, Galacticbox, Cosmobox etc

I still say...Joe.
Joe's your friend.
Joe's always there for you.
Joe...will never let you down.

Versus?
 

THGL:

Was there any particular reason you bought a desktop G5 now instead of waiting for a laptop version? Do you have a reason for a laptop version?

The reason I ask is that I'm looking into making The Big Switch after x^x years of pissing around with IBM whiteboxes... I'm fed up with Microsoft and would like to go back to Apple (my elementary school way back in the day was the first in Ontario to have a Mac lab, so I grew up with them).

List of names
-----------------
Saturn
Posieden
Mercury
Cyclops
Hercules
Zeus
Hera
Cupid
Pam
Hard drive 1
HDD 1
Super Drive
Medusa
TFP
home
Root
Administrator's HDD
THGL HDD
(insert name) HDD
Apple HDD
Maxtor HDD 1

trache

My understanding as a mac user is that a G5 notebook is not exactly on the horizon. Something about they were having difficulties making the chip and support apparatus small enough with all of the cooling requirements. Hell, they didn't even make it to the predicted 3.0 ghz desktops... Not to mention the dual processor option of the desktop=sweetness.

Hmm... just named mine after the models:

WD Raptor 74 (C)
WD250SE External (E)

Mine are just named for their purposes, "Prizograms" and "Music And Movies", repsectively.

Trache, I'm a graphic designer and this is (will be) my work computer. A laptop wouldn't be a good choice for me because of the upgradeability (is that even a word?) of the desktop model. My current G4 has gone through multiple upgrades (add'l HDD, vid card, chip replacement [450Mhz to 1Ghz]) that I don't think would be as easy to do, or even possible, with a laptop.

I've also gotten spoiled with my 22" Cinema Display so even the 17" Powerbook seems rather small to me.

For a home computer, I would consider getting a Powerbook if they weren't as expensive as they are.

i like to call mine "boot".



so uncreative. :|

Stan
Kyle
Cartman
Kenny

If more are needed:

Towely
Mr. Garrison followed by Mr. Hat followed Mr. Slave

System, Games, Media, Recovery and Sharing.

I have mine named win98, winxp, media, and Xdrive (my usb drive)

I'd go with manufacturer names, so if something goes wrong you always refer to it correctly.

This is totally non-pertinent to the subject at hand, but (literally) right as I was scrolling down and reading this post, the opening credits for South Park ran.

/home, /home1, /home2, /home3, etc. only the mountpoint matters

LOCAL DISK1 (C: )
LOCAL DISK2 (D: )
LOCAL DISK3 (E: )
LOCAL DISK4 (F: )

//not shouting, and doesn't care enough to rename disks from the defaults... :)

i'd call it "Big Mac"

or something out of futurama.

Larry
Moe
Curley.

My home computers are named Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and Darlah.

pr0n

Warez

MP3's

Video

:)

Not Kenny!!
 

We had an iMac named Kenny at work as a scanning station. It bit the dust hard. In retrospect, maybe that was not such a good naming choice.

Mine are cheese, mystery, strongbad........im thinking you should name it orgasmothegreat

I've got a G4 as a media server at work with 3 - 120GB drives.. and 1 20GB drive

The drives are called Larry, Moe, and Curly... the OS drive is Shemp...

Name it Trogdor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Natsumi, Rika, Mari, Kaori, Maki, Asuka, Yuko, Aya, Asami, Sayuka, Sayumi, Hiromi, Ai, Nozomi, Risa, Matoko, Eri, Reina, Miki, Kei.... for a start....

thats what i was thinking when i was reading this, i have no names for any of mine :(

I named my puter Bender

Percy

named mine Proteron

how about just
1
2
3
4
...etc
that way you know you wont get confused...or (i dont remember who already said this) but im also a graphic designer and i just named mine for what they're used for..

I have three drives, 80GB, 120Gb and 200GB, they are named Garage, Basement (I have a 1700 sq ft basement) and Warehouse.

Hardy McHardDrive

I have :

Local Disk C
Local Disk D

and the ever popular

New Volume G

feel free to use any of these

Name them after precious gems and metals like diamond, copper, etc.

I made my decision.

I was surfing around xicons.com and came across this set:
http://www.xicons.com/previews/1131nightandday.jpg

So the internal drive is Day and the external is Night.
(I'll probably leave the 10GB firewire with the G4).

It may not seem like the most inspired names, but I figure my internal is used while I'm here (in the day) and my backup software will use the external (at night).

I used to use HAL on my old computers. I guess that would be more appropriate for the machine itself though and not the hdd. I've become boring now and just use C_VOL, D_VOL, etc.

I have 2 12GB drives. The 7200rpm drive is named l33t. The 5400rpm drive is n0t s0 l33t. Heh...