What's the name of your hard drive? (Thread is 4 years old)

Local Disk. Just never thought to change it. I might now, though.

Lolcat.

I base mine after portal cores:

Curiosity Core

Central Core

Cake Core

Boot Core (for my boot loader)

And my computers called GLaDOS

With the exception of Backup which you'll be stunned to learn is my automated backup drive, all my drives, networked peripherals and even my wi-fi network are named after Futurama characters.

Is there a reason to name your hard drive ? I didn't even know it was a thing.

my main drive is named Infinity because i thought I would never fill two terabytes but now i'm out of space on it so i should probably change the name

my other older drive is Hyperdrive

The hard drive in my laptop is named Alpha Hunter Drive, and my portable hard drive is Omega Hunter Drive. My flash drive is Mini Hunter Drive.

Wizard's (D:)

FunFun1000GB for my external and Flashbang for my flash drive.

My C drive is just called Diosca Logánta or something.

Operativsystem (C:) Program (D:) and Files (E:)

If I get an SSD I'm naming it "Speedy Gonzales"

What kind of nerd NAMES their hard drive?

SSD is "C".

1 tera is "E"

externals are "F" through "J".

Actually, I think the system names them after whatever make they are along with assigning them a letter. I have a couple of externals from the same manufacturer, so I added a "2" and so forth to those.

D: Data

OS Disk, but that name is pretty dry. I commonly name my drives after something, and somehow incorporate it with the word monolith (because, y'know, a hard drive is a giant intelligent slab of metal): Dark Monolith, Flat Monolith, Tealith...

Local disk and Old PS3 drive

Is this a phishing scheme? Like when people claim to be into cars so they can ask you what the first one you owned was.

I just have to wonder how this was bumped.

My hard drive is called "Local Disk (C:)" these days, and the hard drive on my laptop is called, originally enough, "Local Disk (C:)". I might rename them.

My C:\ drive is named Raccoon, D:\ is named Shark, E:\ is named Otter. They're named after some of my stuffed animals.

New Volume (E:)

Mine are named for what's on them and I have separate drives for Music Work and Video Work, with a separate backup for each. There's also a Junk drive. C is just Local Disk.

c: (system) is picard

x: (audio) is sisko

z: (video) is riker

That makes me wish my drives were named thusly:

Enterprise (C:)

Enterprise (D:)

Enterprise (E:)

@zombiepenguin9: haha, nice. next go around i'll probably do mr_laforge, mr_data, and mr_worf.

LoveMuffin

Err... "Macintosh HD". That is what my lappy's is called. I should probably change that.

On my desktop my 2TB storage drive is "THE VAULT" and my SSD is "Turbocharger". My old SSD was "Supercharger" but it died.

My one comp sci prof named the hard drive in his Mac after a type of cabbage. Did I mention he was kinda crazy?

Local Disc.

That's right, you heard me.

Local Disk, Data, Local Disk

:/

"Harmful If Swallowed"

porn (C:)

We have the;

a) TARDIS b) Willy Jr. and c) Pokedex

I like random...

My external harddrive has two partitions, the larger one being "Bob Marley" and the other "The Wailers."

(My brother bought it in Jamaica)

C: Local, D: Video, F: Stuff

Local is just a different word for OS at this point. The other two are fairly straightforward.

C: Necro

My external is called Bilbo (because it goes There and Back Again.)

BRANIAC.

C: and E:

My second drive was installed after my dvd drive (D:). Occasionally, I'll use my external drive (F:).

My laptop has a partitioned drive (C: and D:), with a dvd drive(E:).

It's funny that this thread has been bumped twice by users who apparently only registered to post about their partition naming conventions.

I used to have somewhat fancy names in the 90's when the hard drive lettering was determined by the position on the IDE cable (I remember calling my 125MB Caviar hard drive Kalle, because of a famous caviar brand in Sweden), but as hard drives increased in size and it started getting beneficial to have multiple partitions and when Windows 2000 introduced the option to reassign the letter without switching around the cables, I started using descriptive names including the order they should be listed in so I could be sure they hadn't been randomly reassigned different drive letters, which I remember happening on occasion.

So for the last 15 years I've mostly gone with stuff like my current:

C: win-boot, D: storage1 E: storage2-3TB G: external1 H: win7backup

Sounds like the name of a sex toy.

Kinda dull.

DUMP

Each drive is named in the format <model number>_<last 3 digits of serial number>.

Each partition's letter is custom assigned according to purpose.

This has been the most useful system for me. I have a lot of drives, and they get cycled around, so keeping them well organized saves a lot of headache.

C.

It's a hard drive, no a pet.

Wait people name their hard drives? is this a thing now? I don't even give my wifi a custom name.

I have six.

• System drive
• Blu-ray backups
• General
• Videos
• WD MyBook I
• WD MyBook II

My external hard drive is IG-88 and my flash drive is C3PO.

My OS on the SSD is still called local disk but the HDD for storage is called FARTS and the second SSD for storage is called Faster Farts

I recently bought an SSD which i have made my OS drive. The original drive i have split into 2, namely "F: The Hive" and as per the post of SuicidalSnowman, i have named the other one "D: The Ark". My thumbdrive is now just "THE FLASH".