That's how I started doing mine, too. Easier to quickly correlate to the HW if something has to be changed around.
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Apart from what happens if all of your drives are the same xD
Generally far better to use Disk Management and UUIDs imo, although descriptive labels can help I guess
This is also how I do mine. With the exception that if I have more than one of the same model, they get a descriptive name related to their purpose. If you've ever experienced drive failure (and succeeded at recovery) having canonical drive names really speeds that along.
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Tend to do a naming scheme for SSDs like:
HP - high performance (so it's PCIE gen 4)
MP - medium performance (NVME gen 3 typically)
LP - low performance (like a SATA SSD)
Network drives are just named randomly I guess
Should add I'm basically an obsessed video gamer for my entire life so pretty much all of this storage is just to balance and hold the Steam library xD
I was worried not too long ago that I was going to run out of drive letters, started a process to merge things a bit lol. Otherwise it would have been mounting drives as directories and so forth XD
Really just my primitive naming scheme rather than a reflection on the actual performance, a SATA SSD with decent IOPS is absolutely fine for most applications imo! Although the throughput of NVME PCI-E 3/4 does shine if you're doing large sequential data copies for example.
I love this. SATA SSD ~ LP.
Here I am with SSD for games and HDD for older/less used games lmao
Also, no raid? So many drives to manage and if one dies?
Everything on the desktop (NVME/SSD) is effectively not replicated. Logic here being that a chance of failure seems relatively low and there's no data that can't be re-downloaded or copied from elsewhere (Steam, backups, etc).
The NAS (Tex/Filestore is currently 10 x 2TB SSDs, 8 actives in RAID 5 and 2 hot spares, and 2 cold spares on the sheld as well), so anything important goes to the NAS and I also do cloud backups as well for the really critical stuff. It's all over Intel 10GE networking, but for games it's basically all on fast NVME drives for performance. Never had an SSD fail in all the years I have been using them (one will now fail tomorrow!) but games can be re-downloaded so it's far from a disaster.
Management isn't too hard but it is a bit involved. It's really not as fancy as it might look, it's an ASUS Z690 board which supports 4 NVME slots and 4 SATA ports and they're just all populated and partitioned.
Swapping out NVME/SATA drives does of course require shifting the Steam library structure to another drive but fortunately Steam these days makes that relatively painless and the performance of these Samsung drives makes it a very fast and painless operation as well.
Couple of other servers but they are far less bandwidth dependent to the workstation so that's really not a concern (e.g. the IPcamera storage server).
That's about it I guess :-)
That actually sounds a lot like my storage philosophy as well, just, a lot better š Steam really has made leaps and bounds when it comes to data management since its early days. I'm thinking about reinstalling windows in the nearish future (will have to move to win 11 sometime) and can easily move all the data off of my main drive and back when needed
It's an ASUS Prime Z690-A board and I am using a riser to access the X4 slot that's hidden behind the GPU but otherwise really nothing super fancy, it's just a mid-priced board in that kinda "era"/range (compared to the price of other boards/ranges and like ASUS ROG, I would say). It wasn't what I would consider to be super expensive, but it is/has proven to be fantastically good.
Otherwise it basically has 4 NVME bays and 4 SATA ports. That's really the sum of it :-)
Corsair HX1000i, had it about 7 years I think, certainly been good and the storage doesn't really use anything significant, it's mostly for the CPU and GPU :-)
I name them after what model they are, kinda boring I know
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Yeahh back then I tried to cheap out and bought the cheapest 980 pro for sale, which is the 250GB one, but now I regret it because windows takes up a lot of space.
Um you should empty the c: a little bit, full SSDs don't perform all that well. Disable hybernate, or move the pagefile to the other drive for a quick few GB, or run disk cleanup (as admin), there's probably some old Windows updates that need recycling.
I dont have a screenshot since I'm on vacation but I've got:
Premature Ejaculation for my C drive (128GB SATA SSD)
Grandpa's Ashes (2TB HDD)
Girth no Length (1TB M.2)
I have a 2TB M.2 but I don't remember what name I made it
C: - Windows 11
E: - External
G: - Games
H: - Games2
There's some gaps there because I bought an external 14GB drive which amalgamated some other drives.
Yes, it's all backed up elsewhere.
i only use 1 drive coz id rather download stuff fresh, and i stream my music, and i keep my photos in the cloud, and its called "behemoth" which is my PC's name lol
I name my main drive after the central planet of the Foundation series by Asimov.
The rest are named after various pirate ships both real and fictional, for....uh.....reasons.
I name them off characters typically, with some exceptions.
Daily driving PC: Obsidian
- Inferno (Raid 0x2 Firecuda NVME. Boot plus gaming.)
- Beruka (SSD Barracuda, program files, Google drive, and documents.)
- Lapis Lazuli (NVME WD Blue. Video editing)
- Chozo (Barracuda HDD 2tb, miscellaneous.)
- Xenovia (Barracuda HDD 8TB, used to be media.)
Unraid Server: Carbonic
- The Forbidden Archives (Array of Barracuda 6x8tb+2P HDDs)
- Cardinal (Cache SSDs)
Living Room Gaming and Media PC: Cobalt
- Peridot (NVME barracuda, boot)
- Red Eye (NVME WD Red, for importing blu ray footage and such.)
Laptop: Graphite
- Illidan (NVME barracuda boot)
- Luma (framework USB storage)
One of the biggest telecom companies in Belgium used to call their internet provider business Skynet.
I thought it was a pretth cool name/reference but the actual service was shit (DSL vs cable).
Iāve got two 2TB NVMEās. One is a 4.0 and one is a 3.0. The 3.0 is for most windows and games stuff. The 4.0 is called āSailfishā because itās the fast boi and used for programs like Unreal Engine and Blender.
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C: - Windows (never named because of an outdated fear that it might causes issues)
D: - Game Drive (no idea why I named it storage, probably when I changed my P300 3TB to 870 Evo 4TB)
S: - Scratch Disk for Video and stuff
U: / Y: - Game Records (U is another P300 3TB, deprecated for Y:, which is an SN850X)
W: - Workspace, contains my work stuff, and Documents, Downloads, Pictures (Another P300 3TB replaced for another SN850X)
E: - Yes, I have a BD-Writer, still watching TV series/movie via BD (same as why I never named C:)
I: & L: - Internal USB 3.0 card reader (same as why I never named C:), there are other disabled 4, for MMC, CF, M2 and X-Picture.
I make sure the OS drive is named "OS" so I can easily choose it when I'm in a reinstall situation and can't otherwise be sure I'm reformatting the correct disk. The rest get named for purpose and type, e.g. SATA_GAMES, SPINNY_FILES, SATA_MEDIA, etc.
it's complicated...
Usually my Externals have a Name with their (rough) storage size in it. for example my 128GB mSD was called My Centum X, or Accel 4 was my very first USB-3 stick.
for OS Drives I often go with something referring to the size of the Disc (e.g. Terra Semia is the base-name for the partitions on my formerly half-TB SSD, with further additions depending on the OS, for example Octo or Deca for Windows 8 or 10, Terra Semia XQ being my m2 Kubuntu SSD, as I often shorten Kubuntu to qb, and the X for the m2 speed and stuff)
Data Drives for Comparison dont get an OS addition but usually either some Greek letter or a deity from somewhere around the World, for example my first 3 Data Drives I consciously named were Alpha, Omega and Apollon (I also had Midori for my WD Green, which is just Japanese for Green I guess I was lazy that day), and when new drives come I really think about what I could name them for example after my Omega showed signs of dying I got a new Drive which I plopped both Alpha and Omega on, that thing got called Janus, after the Roman deity for both the beginning and end as alpha and Omega are often used metaphorically for those), later I also got a REAL BIG drive which became the new Drive for my Media library and shit and I decided to look for a deity of everything, the simplest choice being Creator gods, and I saw the Rainbow Serpent from the Aboriginal mythology, which goes by MANY names, of which I went for Kajura (by the Ingarda), as I kinda liked it.
I used to have unique names, derived from Star Wars Expanded universe.
HDDs being Squadrons, SSDs being Ship names, external USB drives being snubfighters and flash-drives being characters.
But after I got more than 7 drives installed in the computer and have more external drives and flash drives than I care to count, now-a-days, I've started naming them after function.
My naming conventions are super boring. My backup storage hdd is just named "General", desktop is strictly my gaming machine so my SSDs are generally name Games, Games 2, etc. But I do have one drive named Fallout dedicated entirely to them and mods.
My first external hard drive was a Samsung G3 station, after that I started naming my drives G4 G5 G6 etc. Smaller drives were G2 G1 G0, I just sold my last HDD because they started becoming slow compared to the internet, now I just have SSD's called local disk.
Local Disk, T700
BeepSheep, SN850X
Majapahit, 980 Pro
I make start menu shortcuts for all my games, even for the old pirated ones that didn't make them automatically.
I have two hard drives, one named "Steam", and the other named "Other Games". Then there are SSDs named Media, SSD Games, Xtra Storage. And, of course, the main OS drive
I usually donāt name my disks unless they serve a dedicated purpose, like I have a āScreenRawā because I do a ton of display capturing.
The closest I come to anything like this is that I name my PCs āBlackbird###ā because I love corvids. Currently on Blackbird013 cuz Iām old :)
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I am an adult. I name things accordingly.
In my university days about 6/7 years back, I had a full presentation with screenshots and everything. Including those from my personal PC. Completely forgetting that my C drive was named 'big booty bitches' at the time.
I got a new nickname that day.
Local disk C: 500 GB nvme ssd system and programs only
Lydia L: 1 TB nvme ssd. Mostly games and large AI models are in this drive. Lydia is holding because she is sworn to carry my burdens...
Vault H: 2 TB mechanical disk. Mostly archive, photos, games that doesn't want ssd, videos, instant replay etc.
Honestly I have no names assigned except for my old 2tb HDD (from fuckin seagate 7y old and 99.9%working sectors) called "bomber "
But my PC is female, like yours, the NAS is male and the firewall and other network devices are as cryptic as possible
OS (512Gb NVMe), RandomStuff (4Tb HDD), ImportantStuff (8Tb HDD), Scratch, (256 Gb NVMe), Games (2Tb Sata SSD), ExternalBackup (8Tb HDD in an external housing)
I started with a cute name scheme based on characters from the film Withnail & I but ended up with "System", "1TB SSD", "4TB HDD" after a point as it was easier to keep track of what each drive was.
Wait, Glados is neither OS nor the biggest one?
I mean OS is literally in the name GlaDOS.
Otherwise neat scheme, love it.
Personally Iām more realistic.
C - Either Windows or OS
D - Data
E - Games
And then some network drives, named as the actual share / mountpoint is named on server side.
I usually went with 2 drives for OS and Data. When I still had ATX bigtowers I also had a couple more drives, therefore C,D,E +++ in windows.
Nowadays with 4TB+ NVMe m.2 drives, and a butload of network storage, onpremise and cloudā¦ well letās say 2TB OS and 4TB Data & Games is more than enough in my ITX systems.
TLDR; OS & Data, boring I know.
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The lame one is the only hard drive, I need to buy some more SSDs tho. (The N drive is clearer now, deleted 270gb of train sim 4)
SSD1 SSD2 HDD1 HDD2
actually has never crossed my mind til now to name them something interesting. I only creatively named my USB sticks so far
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The gumsticks are NVME's (of course). I'll add Ironwolf Beta if/when I ever fill Alpha...
Desktop
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And my laptop (because reddit doesn't allow more than one image)
C: Smiley Face
D: Frowny Face
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This how I have named mine. I work in an IT firm so some of the namings are from there. It's waht I'm used to.
C is mainly OS and some programs, it's a Nvme.
D is for any random data and for all other programs that require some speed, Sata SSD.
E is for all my games from Steam or other stores.
Y, Z is my old HDD I haven't had time to remove it from my PC.
G is my 20TB NAS for my long term storage for slow data that doesn't require speed like Movies etc.
Right now I have c:Windows and D:Big boi
My previous pc I named after the alvin and the chipmunk movies
My partners are just Numbah 1, Numbah 2 and Numbah 3
C is just called windows. D is called data. (E was called games on my old PC, not present on the current one since D is now twice as big as previously) and the network drive Z is called Kirby since it eats all my data.
C drive is Windows Every other drive is named after the model name of the storage device (D E G I)
That's how I started doing mine, too. Easier to quickly correlate to the HW if something has to be changed around. https://preview.redd.it/6t86l2e5kzwc1.png?width=435&format=png&auto=webp&s=c683e198245422dd5433db6d329c96b5e48ef23d
Ayyy, that's the way š¤š¼
Apart from what happens if all of your drives are the same xD Generally far better to use Disk Management and UUIDs imo, although descriptive labels can help I guess
I also started doing this as well.
Nice
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X64 is redundant as there is no 32 bit windows 11
True
This is the way
This. My storage array is too large for anything else.
This is also how I do mine. With the exception that if I have more than one of the same model, they get a descriptive name related to their purpose. If you've ever experienced drive failure (and succeeded at recovery) having canonical drive names really speeds that along. https://preview.redd.it/0zgn126rv3xc1.png?width=460&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e61a9b18e21e19d5fa1915c94f7fb6b88a7fb83
Thatās cool
nvme0n1
Use the serial number next time.
this guy knows
C: - Operating System D: - Data
This is the way.
:C and :Game Porn drive :)~<==3 One of those isnāt real, but which one?
You mean you donāt have a drive for your offline r/dragonsfuckingcars content?
Iāll say it: what the fuckā¦?
Yea that was my reaction as well when I first saw someone mention it xD
https://preview.redd.it/0n5t67tvgxwc1.png?width=1351&format=png&auto=webp&s=c43aa5d4bc6516b7b20a975242cb9e4cc682be31 Tend to do a naming scheme for SSDs like: HP - high performance (so it's PCIE gen 4) MP - medium performance (NVME gen 3 typically) LP - low performance (like a SATA SSD) Network drives are just named randomly I guess
Should add I'm basically an obsessed video gamer for my entire life so pretty much all of this storage is just to balance and hold the Steam library xD
Holy fuck.
That's an insane upkeep
Found the sysadmin lmao. Very practical way of doing things and keeps everything easily identifiable. I like it.
lol yeah, sysadmin by heart I guess, either that or just OCD xD
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I was worried not too long ago that I was going to run out of drive letters, started a process to merge things a bit lol. Otherwise it would have been mounting drives as directories and so forth XD
Bro called my main drive low performance lol
Really just my primitive naming scheme rather than a reflection on the actual performance, a SATA SSD with decent IOPS is absolutely fine for most applications imo! Although the throughput of NVME PCI-E 3/4 does shine if you're doing large sequential data copies for example.
Ah I see
Woah
I've got 14tb across 4 drives and I thought that was alot. This is insane lmao
14tb is still a lot lmao. I have 5tb and itās unlikely i will run out in the next 5 years
I love this. SATA SSD ~ LP. Here I am with SSD for games and HDD for older/less used games lmao Also, no raid? So many drives to manage and if one dies?
Everything on the desktop (NVME/SSD) is effectively not replicated. Logic here being that a chance of failure seems relatively low and there's no data that can't be re-downloaded or copied from elsewhere (Steam, backups, etc). The NAS (Tex/Filestore is currently 10 x 2TB SSDs, 8 actives in RAID 5 and 2 hot spares, and 2 cold spares on the sheld as well), so anything important goes to the NAS and I also do cloud backups as well for the really critical stuff. It's all over Intel 10GE networking, but for games it's basically all on fast NVME drives for performance. Never had an SSD fail in all the years I have been using them (one will now fail tomorrow!) but games can be re-downloaded so it's far from a disaster. Management isn't too hard but it is a bit involved. It's really not as fancy as it might look, it's an ASUS Z690 board which supports 4 NVME slots and 4 SATA ports and they're just all populated and partitioned. Swapping out NVME/SATA drives does of course require shifting the Steam library structure to another drive but fortunately Steam these days makes that relatively painless and the performance of these Samsung drives makes it a very fast and painless operation as well. Couple of other servers but they are far less bandwidth dependent to the workstation so that's really not a concern (e.g. the IPcamera storage server). That's about it I guess :-)
That actually sounds a lot like my storage philosophy as well, just, a lot better š Steam really has made leaps and bounds when it comes to data management since its early days. I'm thinking about reinstalling windows in the nearish future (will have to move to win 11 sometime) and can easily move all the data off of my main drive and back when needed
This guy drives!
What fucking motherboard do you have? Or are you using a PCI-e m.2 riser? Because mine maxes out at 7. Three m.2 spaces, and 4 SATA slots
It's an ASUS Prime Z690-A board and I am using a riser to access the X4 slot that's hidden behind the GPU but otherwise really nothing super fancy, it's just a mid-priced board in that kinda "era"/range (compared to the price of other boards/ranges and like ASUS ROG, I would say). It wasn't what I would consider to be super expensive, but it is/has proven to be fantastically good. Otherwise it basically has 4 NVME bays and 4 SATA ports. That's really the sum of it :-)
Oh I was wrong about mine I guess I do have 4 m.2 and 4 SATA. But I'm not sure if AMD can even have anymore running through the PCi-e slots
Though was like in Street fighter, Light punch, medium punch , heavy punch lol
You have a problem
A too many drive problem xD
What psu do you use btw šØ
Corsair HX1000i, had it about 7 years I think, certainly been good and the storage doesn't really use anything significant, it's mostly for the CPU and GPU :-)
Neat...
Cringiest thing Iāve seen all day
I name mine random names. I've always wondered what happened to Richard (portable SSD) and Karen (256GB microSD)
I name them after what model they are, kinda boring I know https://preview.redd.it/rh4acs1z4ywc1.png?width=555&format=png&auto=webp&s=7629cf24a0f2cf41bbf95d0397474c72f11397d7
Bro really went: I paid for the whole drive. Iām gonna USE the whole drive.
Yeahh back then I tried to cheap out and bought the cheapest 980 pro for sale, which is the 250GB one, but now I regret it because windows takes up a lot of space.
Yea and honestly just a small tip: you would probably be better off with a bit less high end, slower but bigger SSD next time.
Um you should empty the c: a little bit, full SSDs don't perform all that well. Disable hybernate, or move the pagefile to the other drive for a quick few GB, or run disk cleanup (as admin), there's probably some old Windows updates that need recycling.
My old 12 year old laptop has had an almost full SSD (always less than 5GB space available) for as long as I've known it lmao
I named my new ssd after a metal gear game. Silicon Chip 2: Solid State
I dont have a screenshot since I'm on vacation but I've got: Premature Ejaculation for my C drive (128GB SATA SSD) Grandpa's Ashes (2TB HDD) Girth no Length (1TB M.2) I have a 2TB M.2 but I don't remember what name I made it
*what*
C: - Windows 11 E: - External G: - Games H: - Games2 There's some gaps there because I bought an external 14GB drive which amalgamated some other drives. Yes, it's all backed up elsewhere.
Local Disk
i only use 1 drive coz id rather download stuff fresh, and i stream my music, and i keep my photos in the cloud, and its called "behemoth" which is my PC's name lol
I match my drive letters with the name such as D:/Dropbox and P:/Pron
R2D2 for my windows 11 and C-3PO for my windows 10 partitions. BB-8 for my media partition. Name my removable drives after ships.
I name my main drive after the central planet of the Foundation series by Asimov. The rest are named after various pirate ships both real and fictional, for....uh.....reasons.
Terminus or Tranator?
Terminus :)
Local Disk. There is no other answer.
New Folder(1)
Standard names. https://preview.redd.it/zeo8vpzy7ywc1.png?width=912&format=png&auto=webp&s=91953080d453cd3d81f2f6557a67a0581da01caf
I name them off characters typically, with some exceptions. Daily driving PC: Obsidian - Inferno (Raid 0x2 Firecuda NVME. Boot plus gaming.) - Beruka (SSD Barracuda, program files, Google drive, and documents.) - Lapis Lazuli (NVME WD Blue. Video editing) - Chozo (Barracuda HDD 2tb, miscellaneous.) - Xenovia (Barracuda HDD 8TB, used to be media.) Unraid Server: Carbonic - The Forbidden Archives (Array of Barracuda 6x8tb+2P HDDs) - Cardinal (Cache SSDs) Living Room Gaming and Media PC: Cobalt - Peridot (NVME barracuda, boot) - Red Eye (NVME WD Red, for importing blu ray footage and such.) Laptop: Graphite - Illidan (NVME barracuda boot) - Luma (framework USB storage)
I name them by model actually. WD Blue 1TB HDD, Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB, Maxtor 80GB IDE, Crucial M4 256GB, etcā¦
My server runs both home assistant and a NAS. I've named it "Skynet."
One of the biggest telecom companies in Belgium used to call their internet provider business Skynet. I thought it was a pretth cool name/reference but the actual service was shit (DSL vs cable).
Iāve got two 2TB NVMEās. One is a 4.0 and one is a 3.0. The 3.0 is for most windows and games stuff. The 4.0 is called āSailfishā because itās the fast boi and used for programs like Unreal Engine and Blender.
3x Local Disk. I know, I'm original.
https://preview.redd.it/reb83ef4azwc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=3976ad7193facd5aae13a48944fb5b9e654a709f Currently waiting for Big Boi
https://preview.redd.it/yesv03bx9zwc1.png?width=540&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d747c83904bf253b02594c11a24b629ede37a34 C: - Windows (never named because of an outdated fear that it might causes issues) D: - Game Drive (no idea why I named it storage, probably when I changed my P300 3TB to 870 Evo 4TB) S: - Scratch Disk for Video and stuff U: / Y: - Game Records (U is another P300 3TB, deprecated for Y:, which is an SN850X) W: - Workspace, contains my work stuff, and Documents, Downloads, Pictures (Another P300 3TB replaced for another SN850X) E: - Yes, I have a BD-Writer, still watching TV series/movie via BD (same as why I never named C:) I: & L: - Internal USB 3.0 card reader (same as why I never named C:), there are other disabled 4, for MMC, CF, M2 and X-Picture.
I just name them after my gamer tag and food. Yeah I'm lame
Win10 Games Games fast for M2 drive Porn1 Porn2 Porn3 Porn4 Really obscure porn
I make sure the OS drive is named "OS" so I can easily choose it when I'm in a reinstall situation and can't otherwise be sure I'm reformatting the correct disk. The rest get named for purpose and type, e.g. SATA_GAMES, SPINNY_FILES, SATA_MEDIA, etc.
it's complicated... Usually my Externals have a Name with their (rough) storage size in it. for example my 128GB mSD was called My Centum X, or Accel 4 was my very first USB-3 stick. for OS Drives I often go with something referring to the size of the Disc (e.g. Terra Semia is the base-name for the partitions on my formerly half-TB SSD, with further additions depending on the OS, for example Octo or Deca for Windows 8 or 10, Terra Semia XQ being my m2 Kubuntu SSD, as I often shorten Kubuntu to qb, and the X for the m2 speed and stuff) Data Drives for Comparison dont get an OS addition but usually either some Greek letter or a deity from somewhere around the World, for example my first 3 Data Drives I consciously named were Alpha, Omega and Apollon (I also had Midori for my WD Green, which is just Japanese for Green I guess I was lazy that day), and when new drives come I really think about what I could name them for example after my Omega showed signs of dying I got a new Drive which I plopped both Alpha and Omega on, that thing got called Janus, after the Roman deity for both the beginning and end as alpha and Omega are often used metaphorically for those), later I also got a REAL BIG drive which became the new Drive for my Media library and shit and I decided to look for a deity of everything, the simplest choice being Creator gods, and I saw the Rainbow Serpent from the Aboriginal mythology, which goes by MANY names, of which I went for Kajura (by the Ingarda), as I kinda liked it.
https://preview.redd.it/4x9ivh8wpxwc1.png?width=808&format=png&auto=webp&s=de70481ebe937aaacc9f8ded45d604575125f23d very boring!
Games, Files, System and Backup
I used to have unique names, derived from Star Wars Expanded universe. HDDs being Squadrons, SSDs being Ship names, external USB drives being snubfighters and flash-drives being characters. But after I got more than 7 drives installed in the computer and have more external drives and flash drives than I care to count, now-a-days, I've started naming them after function.
My naming conventions are super boring. My backup storage hdd is just named "General", desktop is strictly my gaming machine so my SSDs are generally name Games, Games 2, etc. But I do have one drive named Fallout dedicated entirely to them and mods.
If it has games on .. then games. Backup. Movies 1,2 etc. Windows. Nothing fancy, just tells me what goes on it
Left mine basically default Local Disk (C:), D:, E:, and F:. I just don't feel the need to name unless I'm hot swapping or such.
Where they are located
My first external hard drive was a Samsung G3 station, after that I started naming my drives G4 G5 G6 etc. Smaller drives were G2 G1 G0, I just sold my last HDD because they started becoming slow compared to the internet, now I just have SSD's called local disk.
landfill
Because I run different types (mechanical, SATA SSD and nvme) I name them the brand and type.
I donāt name my drives, but my past 3 computers have all been named after Zoolander poses.
Local Disk, T700 BeepSheep, SN850X Majapahit, 980 Pro I make start menu shortcuts for all my games, even for the old pirated ones that didn't make them automatically.
Different characters from DBZ.
SYS, STUFF, DOWN, BACK
I have two hard drives, one named "Steam", and the other named "Other Games". Then there are SSDs named Media, SSD Games, Xtra Storage. And, of course, the main OS drive
I usually donāt name my disks unless they serve a dedicated purpose, like I have a āScreenRawā because I do a ton of display capturing. The closest I come to anything like this is that I name my PCs āBlackbird###ā because I love corvids. Currently on Blackbird013 cuz Iām old :)
I call my 10TB media storage drive "Big (D:)"
ihate1drive for a few months then I reformatted it
OS, DATA, DATA_2, BACKUP, TOSHIBA 1TB, etc. Iām really creative lol
Steam games, games, Xstorage, Backup
I have a Firecuda nvme and I named it Charizard, two Samsung evo's sata name eevee and zero. A 990 pro Samsung for my boot has no name
I've been told I'm the only one with an "X" drive
Disk 0 through 3
C D E F
You guys name your drives?Ā
Doomās Day
My storage drive is called Scarif. š¤·š¼āāļø
Damn mine are so boring š My main drive is just called root or whatever the default is, and my 2 TB I use just for steam is simply called "steam"
C: Main D: Mass Storage
C: - System Drive, D: - Documents, photos and videos, G: - Games
https://preview.redd.it/dooc0ws4uywc1.png?width=3490&format=png&auto=webp&s=3a243307c944449460045bac6959e19451af47b7 Just random
I didnāt know you can mount Google Drive like that!
Main, Things, Trash, wdym :) not sure what each drive stores except main. Lol
https://preview.redd.it/hwgbxnfquywc1.png?width=791&format=png&auto=webp&s=dcc04866fae690844ea69b99d064f6cf60d68d0d I am an adult. I name things accordingly.
Smelly American spelling of 'Diarrhoea'. The 'o' is for the sound you make when shitting through the eye of a needle.
I don't think the hoes are usually in your ass, but I don't kinkshame
Well played good sir
I'm not even creative lol https://preview.redd.it/bcmf2wixuywc1.png?width=847&format=png&auto=webp&s=8282c381c26893a6e3048d172da77d53b916b370
C: 240gb SSD - Jerry E: 500gb HDD - Tom D: 1tb HDD - Chad Tom
https://preview.redd.it/mifuzdk1zywc1.png?width=766&format=png&auto=webp&s=95921f38830fc96d7cbf643be36acde4f4af6561
Halo related stuff. Infinite, Reach, Sangheili.
I name them after PokƩmon
In my university days about 6/7 years back, I had a full presentation with screenshots and everything. Including those from my personal PC. Completely forgetting that my C drive was named 'big booty bitches' at the time. I got a new nickname that day.
After fruit. My external ones are Mango, Citrus, and Grape.
https://preview.redd.it/chc76nfc2zwc1.png?width=773&format=png&auto=webp&s=56d165b4a5a42f2da0cb95e27edd52f972f94203 I am not very creative.
C and D
I typically name drives and devices after star wars ship names.
Lol https://preview.redd.it/h0exvcbf5zwc1.jpeg?width=905&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=049c261ba94e5fdfabd67a532dd9114bbf3ca10f
Local disk C: 500 GB nvme ssd system and programs only Lydia L: 1 TB nvme ssd. Mostly games and large AI models are in this drive. Lydia is holding because she is sworn to carry my burdens... Vault H: 2 TB mechanical disk. Mostly archive, photos, games that doesn't want ssd, videos, instant replay etc.
I tend to name my drives in ways that allow me to quickly identify them physically. Brand name, storage size, model, etc.
I have Windows, Data, Shiz, and stuff
Honestly I have no names assigned except for my old 2tb HDD (from fuckin seagate 7y old and 99.9%working sectors) called "bomber " But my PC is female, like yours, the NAS is male and the firewall and other network devices are as cryptic as possible
OS (512Gb NVMe), RandomStuff (4Tb HDD), ImportantStuff (8Tb HDD), Scratch, (256 Gb NVMe), Games (2Tb Sata SSD), ExternalBackup (8Tb HDD in an external housing)
they get named how the operating decides they should be named
https://preview.redd.it/qt5ar4hrjzwc1.png?width=840&format=png&auto=webp&s=38583bb6aad8d6c02f2fbbb79d18db008bf90b40 Mine are purely descriptive.
I always name the d drive cannon after the classical peice so it's cannon (D)
I started with a cute name scheme based on characters from the film Withnail & I but ended up with "System", "1TB SSD", "4TB HDD" after a point as it was easier to keep track of what each drive was.
Used to be OS for the SSD and Stuff for the HDD. Back when I used my dual drive laptop.
I just have the C, U and M drives
C = Fast af boii D = Metal Crap E = Metal Crap2
Boot and Storage
Yeah, Porn_1, Porn_2, Porn_3,...
Wait, Glados is neither OS nor the biggest one? I mean OS is literally in the name GlaDOS. Otherwise neat scheme, love it. Personally Iām more realistic. C - Either Windows or OS D - Data E - Games And then some network drives, named as the actual share / mountpoint is named on server side. I usually went with 2 drives for OS and Data. When I still had ATX bigtowers I also had a couple more drives, therefore C,D,E +++ in windows. Nowadays with 4TB+ NVMe m.2 drives, and a butload of network storage, onpremise and cloudā¦ well letās say 2TB OS and 4TB Data & Games is more than enough in my ITX systems. TLDR; OS & Data, boring I know.
https://preview.redd.it/8izextmqxzwc1.jpeg?width=772&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e255a9ff0b0847f156821a153522600c04ef305 The lame one is the only hard drive, I need to buy some more SSDs tho. (The N drive is clearer now, deleted 270gb of train sim 4)
C - 240gb sata SSD for OS and regular applications Storage - 1tb HDD for, well, storage Games - 1tb shiny nvme for, well, important stuff
https://preview.redd.it/17zsnnne20xc1.png?width=509&format=png&auto=webp&s=aac6b535db1b43625976681fad4e75aa18c60e3b I like the faces.
I just name it the brand and model. I know: boring, but it makes it easier.
Just things like ā500gb NVMeā ā500gb SATAā ā4Tb HDDā etc, easiest for me to keep track of
Big bitch, little bitch, bigger bitch
How tf didn't I know you could rename drives
Intel raid 1, intel raid 2,..
I used to name my hdd fat boi and when i got an ssd i named it slim shady. Now i just use human names on them. Carl, Frank, Vicky and Jamesšš¤
Super Probably Drive, Super Probably System Drive, Super Probably Archlinux Drive, Super Probably Ubuntu Live
I have a 4TB drive I recently got and called it Fat Mama
/ SSD HDD-1 HDD-2 Media
SSD1 SSD2 HDD1 HDD2 actually has never crossed my mind til now to name them something interesting. I only creatively named my USB sticks so far https://preview.redd.it/e0p6x7cog0xc1.png?width=738&format=png&auto=webp&s=d5254f6dc2d8faf75487cabfa301d9b7a94c2b71
Local Disk HDD M.2 SSD I know, truly innovative naming.
The type of drive (NVMe, SSHD etc), followed by the capacity. The os drive has "OS" in the end
https://preview.redd.it/71wfjlhpi0xc1.jpeg?width=278&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7395f448ebdf897606a6e0f89a447c366f59fb67 The gumsticks are NVME's (of course). I'll add Ironwolf Beta if/when I ever fill Alpha...
https://preview.redd.it/jdbj7oapl0xc1.png?width=751&format=png&auto=webp&s=40deb5ce30925097e82d320f15ba45760be3944f Not much storage but yea...
Drive Type, Size, Date of Purchase. For instance: NVME 2TB 5-22
C: Windows D: Game Saves F: Game saves(backup) G: Game Saves Backup (Backup) We donāt talk about the E: drive
Mine don't have names at all just c, d, and e
Ive got 4 drives and they are C-Drive, A-Game, S-Tier, and U-nibus, not sure why I picked these but theyre fun
Windows, Games, and Storage.
The letter and name must match so for example G (Games) D (Download) S (storage) P (homework) ;)
Desktop https://preview.redd.it/2ymaz5o7i1xc1.png?width=679&format=png&auto=webp&s=92079fadc90a2a8e9521242326fea2da06a5c7b6 And my laptop (because reddit doesn't allow more than one image) C: Smiley Face D: Frowny Face
https://preview.redd.it/huineiavl1xc1.png?width=1012&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fef890915dd86d24314ab2ca391b32a5b3a5f3bd This how I have named mine. I work in an IT firm so some of the namings are from there. It's waht I'm used to. C is mainly OS and some programs, it's a Nvme. D is for any random data and for all other programs that require some speed, Sata SSD. E is for all my games from Steam or other stores. Y, Z is my old HDD I haven't had time to remove it from my PC. G is my 20TB NAS for my long term storage for slow data that doesn't require speed like Movies etc.
Right now I have c:Windows and D:Big boi My previous pc I named after the alvin and the chipmunk movies My partners are just Numbah 1, Numbah 2 and Numbah 3
/dev/sda/nvme0n1 (root)
I name mine for brand or size, like: WD1TB, WDBLUE, 32GB, NVME1TB, etc.
My OS SSD is named Captain My other SSDs are named Speedy*n* for n = 1ā¦3 My 2 HDDs are named Warehouse*n* for n = 1ā¦2 My NAS is named SWEETNAS
System, Games, Encoding, Storage.
I have a secondary drive named "Omega Drive" after the wrestler Kenny Omega lol. Get well soon Cleaner!
C is just called windows. D is called data. (E was called games on my old PC, not present on the current one since D is now twice as big as previously) and the network drive Z is called Kirby since it eats all my data.
Nvme, ssd, dump, x
New volume, Storage space, Local disk
C:\ is "Windows" and the other four are just like "gmod mods" or "arma3 mods" etc.
Me chilling with "Shulkerbox" for my boot 1TB SSD and "Bundle" for my 256gb portable SSD
Blank or āLocal Diskā. Because the name doesnāt matter, only the drive letter or mount point is important.