Do you name your hard drives?

[The Professor]

Saw this thread on the escapist and thought it might be interesting! By hard drives I mean internal, external, ssds, usb flash drives, sd cards, magic beer cans, anything nameable!

My USB thumb drives are called Mushroom 3 and 4. My first one was called Mushroom (abbreviation of magic mushroom, it didn't fit) and when I got another that was called mushroom 2. I lost those 2 and got some more from play.com and called the mushroom 3 and 4.

I have 5 partitions accross my 3 internal hdds, there's Windows XP, Windows 7, Ubuntu, Storage and Windows7point1. The last one is because I was running the windows 7 RC and installed the RTM on another partition but never bothered to move the data over so now I have both :P

All my computers are called Norman for no real reason :D

[xxMATTGxx]

I have one hard drive named and if no one has seen my desktop backgrounds with my hard drives showing then it’s called "The Porno Drive". This used to be my External until I made it an internal. All the others are default names such as: "Local Disk". Although I have named my computer: THEGARNER. :P

[Stephen!]

I name mine after their purpose.

[Eoin]

i named the SD card in my phone 'John' :D

[Jamesy]

http://uploads.shizzlenizzle.biz/images/drive.png

I wouldn't say I name them well..

[Arch]

Ive named my USB keys but not my hard drives :P

[GommeInc]

Well the C drive is still called Vista, the external is called Space Saver (awful, cringeworthy name) and the USB sticks are named whatever depending on their purpose :)

[Arch]

I usually name my USBs something stupid that pops in to my head when i get them lmaoo

1 is named ***** and the other **** <--- although both words willl be blocked :O

[Alkaz]

Nope, I just leave it alone lmao.

[Flisker]

C:\ is called OS, D:\ is called Random, E:\ is called User Data and my USB drive is called Chris.

oh and my pc is called Chris-PC or Chris-Laptop and so on.

[N!ck]

Really creative lol.

http://grab.by/Lr0

[HotelUser]

I just call them however large they are like 500GB 1TB 16GB and so on:P

[TehJoshy]

never bothered with this pc.

simply left them as "OS" and "RECOVERY"

[Black_Apalachi]

At first I wasn't sure if you meant irl or not lmao :P. Erm no I just left mine as the default manufacturer's name.

[Recursion]

No, but I name servers weird names.

[GommeInc]

No, but I name servers weird names.
Such as? :P

[Chippiewill]

All my Hard Drives, usb sticks and computers are named after planets from Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis.

All the computers are named after planets in the Stargate Milky Way galaxy:

Desktop: Chulak
Laptop 1: Abydos
Laptop 2: Enkara


Usb Sticks are named after planets in Stargate Atlantis

Graphic Design / School work: Atlantea
Photos: Athos
Portable Apps: Hoff

Hard Drives are based off names of the Asgard in SG-1:

HDD1: Thor
HDD2: Loki
HDD3: Hermiod (Although from SG Atlantis)
HDD4: Penegal
NAS: Freyr

[The Professor]

^^^ at least that's a fun one! You're all boring :( On the escapist forum loads of people named theirs really random things ;D

[GommeInc]

^^^ at least that's a fun one! You're all boring :( On the escapist forum loads of people named theirs really random things ;D
Someone name their HDD Professor-A :P It would please him :P

[The Professor]

Someone name their HDD Professor-A :P It would please him :P

There is no pleasing me. I just get less annoyed :8

[Judge Judy]

Hard drive just called C:// creativity there*+*+

When I get an external I may name it. Though, my USB pen drive's called Store 'N' Go, cause of the preinstalled syncing app on it.

[Markeh]

None of my hard disks are named (yet), but my USB sticks are named. One is Fiat256Mb (a promotional Fiat one), Advent512Mb (you can tell where this is going, can't you?), and my SanDisk U3 is called.... Yeah, Sandisk U3.

[Mentor]

yea i name all my drives, networked and local alike. I'd never remember what was where without em :p

[Laurensh1]

System C
Documenten D (Documents in Dutch)...

External
Laurens USB & Transcend external hd

[Turbocom]

yeah, this ins't my primary desktop.

I've got 8 1TB drives on my main desktop with 2 server partitions.

http://www.uploadir.com/u/de9e52ae

[Blob]

http://i46.tinypic.com/4ih5r6.png
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[The Professor]

Lol are they real words? :P

[Blob]

Lol are they real words? :P

That or the website was lying :P

[GommeInc]

http://i46.tinypic.com/4ih5r6.png
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Good ol' Google :P They are very random names :S One to do with being in "the state to achieve honours", "to move around in circles" and the last one is "A fear of being beaten with a pointed stick." I like, probably the best names so far :P

[Tomm]

Good job you don't have hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia :P


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[Recursion]

Exciting stuff.. LOL

And the 500S means 500GB SATA.

http://www.*****.co.uk/drives.png

[N!ck]

Exciting stuff.. LOL

And the 500S means 500GB SATA.

http://www.*****.co.uk/drives.png

Be a man and do some full drive encryption with TrueCrypt.

[The Professor]

What real reason is there to encrypt a drive? Do you have top secret government information about the next top secret catnip or something? :P

[Recursion]

Be a man and do some full drive encryption with TrueCrypt.

I was gunna, then I got lazy, 420GBs of data would take agesssss to encrypt! :(


What real reason is there to encrypt a drive? Do you have top secret government information about the next top secret catnip or something? :P

For funzies obviously

[N!ck]

What real reason is there to encrypt a drive? Do you have top secret government information about the next top secret catnip or something? :P

Yes :P.

Nah, I got bored one day and decided to do some encryption. More fool me. 1.5TB encrypted :P.


I was gunna, then I got lazy, 420GBs of data would take agesssss to encrypt! :(



For funzies obviously

Yeah. I do intent on putting it back to normal at some point as I'm getting rather board of typing a 20+ character password to access my stuff. Just need the motivation to start decrypting :(.

[Agnostic Bear]

http://imgbear.com/Crap/Images/drives.png

[Stephen!]

http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/2585844/img/Anonymous/Capture.png

[PaulMacC]

My memory stick is named ASS
I win.

[Chippiewill]

What real reason is there to encrypt a drive? Do you have top secret government information about the next top secret catnip or something? :P

If you want to take porn into america it's a good idea... not that I researched it or anything like that <insert shifty eyes smily here>

[Tomm]

While encrypting a hard drive on a desktop is really only of purpose, typically, if you want to hide something from someone, there is actually a real purpose to encrypting hard drives in laptops. Actually, I'd strongly recommend you encrypt the hard drive in your laptop if you ever take it out of the house as you'd be surprised how much personal information could be on there. I'm sure you would not want that kind of information falling into the wrong hands if your laptop was stolen, hence why you should encrypt it.

[The Professor]

My memory stick is named ASS
I win.

I named my friend's USB FLASH DRIVE (memory stick is a band name and a different product </ocd> ) companion cube and he never bothered to change it back.

Weighted companion cube ftw

[Tomm]

I've never been the same since I was forced to burn my companion cube :(


I named my friend's USB FLASH DRIVE (memory stick is a band name and a different product </ocd> ) companion cube and he never bothered to change it back.

Weighted companion cube ftw

[danzooo]

My iPhone is called Angela

[Pyroka]

Yeah I do, my mate has like 6 that he has to name but it doesnt help much LOL

[Chippiewill]

I've never been the same since I was forced to burn my companion cube :(
http://arthurseverythingblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/companion-cube.jpg

[The Professor]

There's a great video on youtube of someone making a weighted companion cube out of wood (I think it was wood), they put their cat inside it and everything its well funny :D I'll see if I can find the link to it.

Companion cube appreciated thread ftw :D