How Many Drives or Partitions Do You Have?

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I'd like to get an idea how many drives/partitions the average user has. It will help me to determine the best number of drives to leave space for when I use the self expanding drive meters I use in my DX themes.

I have 5 drives/partitions, more when using a flash drive or SD card. So I like space for 7 or 8.

 

But if the end user only has one or two, there'll be a lot of wasted space left over.....looks funny.

 

Anyway, I'd appreciate it if you guys would tell how many drives/partitions you have.

 

 

EDIT: Please omit CD/DVD drives as they do not show up in the meter.

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I have 6.

C:   D:   E: (DVD) F: (CD unlocker for my external drive) G: (music/videos) H: Storage (Back ups and stuff)

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Ok, my bad. Please omit CD/DVD drives. They do not show up in the drives meter.

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Seven drives/partitions here.

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In general I have always had two drives. They used to be C (traditional hard drive) and D (removable media drive). I now have C (SSD) and D (traditional hard drive) and no dedicated removable drive. If I need one, I plug in a USB drive temporarily.

Hope that helps.

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C, D, G, H, J, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z.

E, & F are DVDs

When plugged in there's also an I ...Camera/Phone/USB

Reply #6 Top

Damn, Jafo. I can't get all that one a background...lol

 

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C: D: E: F: G: H: separate drives and 1 external TB backup drive

 

Reply #8 Top

 C is an SSD RAID Array while D, E, M, & O are separate platter drives. there's also a separate eSATA backup drive (T).

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Quoting RedneckDude, reply 6
Damn, Jafo. I can't get all that one a background...lol
End of RedneckDude's quote

T, U, and V are mapped network drives...

W, X, Y, and Z are a multi-card reader.

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Quoting MadDeez, reply 8
 C is an SSD RAID Array while D, E, M, & O are separate platter drives. there's also a separate eSATA backup drive (T).
End of MadDeez's quote
D E M O ...L O L

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Betamax...reel to reel...cassette...8-track...etch-a-sketch...drives in the country...and I have 4 partitions in my apartment. :P

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some of my comps have only two drives with three drive letters, my main machine has four internal drives with seven assigned drive letters/partitions and THREE external hdds(c,d,e,f,g,i,k,l,m,&p) + typically four usb sticks , my b2 has four drives with four letters, and space to ADD FOUR more hdds internally, my b3 has only 3 hdds with three letters,  my b4 has a boot ssd a 500gb boot hdd (with two partitions, and (currently seven but can load NINE) hdds with varing numbers of partitions(currently c,y,f,g,i,l,n,x + networks drives), BUT my lev 530 laptop has ONE drive (750gb) with four partitions(xp,win7 x86,win7x64 and data)

harpo

 

Reply #13 Top

C, D, G, H, I, J, K, L  E And F are DVD and BluRay Drives Then i Have my External 3Tb Drive with M, N, O, P And Q partitions :)

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Twelve.

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I have 5 drives, two 160GB SSD drives for OS's, two 500GB drives for data and a 1TB drive for data backup. They are partitioned to full capacity on each drive.

 

Oh, and two DVD drives of course. :)

Reply #16 Top

Quoting WebGizmos, reply 11
Betamax...reel to reel...cassette...8-track...etch-a-sketch...drives in the country...and I have 4 partitions in my apartment
End of WebGizmos's quote
  :rofl:

 

c: (SSD) separate HDs are D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K for data. 

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7 in my main rig. 4 internal sata drives and 3 external Western Digital My Books. It also has a blu-ray player/dvd burner.

My laptop came with 2 x 750GB sata drives and I pulled one and replaced it with a SSD. It also has a blu-ray player/dvd burner.

I thought 7 was alot...some of you put me to shame. ;)

I was thinking about buying a blu-ray burner for my main rig...anyone have one they can recommend?

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EDIT: Please omit CD/DVD drives as they do not show up in the meter.
End of quote
  :grin:

Reply #19 Top

Wow...looks like I need to have the meters floating with no size limit. Thanks guys!!

 

Reply #20 Top

1x128Gb SSD, 2x1.5Tb and 1x500Gb hard drives. All that is split into ten partitions.

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1x128GB SSD with max-controller, 1xSSD 256Gb , 1x HDD spinpoint F1 150gb, 3x2TB Lacie Porsche Design(external) for backups running 24/7 
the main bottleneck is the spinpoint F1 it only transfers 300Mb/s  so i will have to get another SSD to replace it.

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Two SATA Physical Drives split into eight volumes. Disk 0 Volume 1[c] is Boot, vol 2[d] temp (includes chrome cache), vol 3[e] (most programs), vol 4 and 5 (data), Disk 1 vol 1 is just the swap file, Dick 1 vol 2 is backup.

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Quoting poormonknm, reply 22
Dick 1 vol 2 is backup
End of poormonknm's quote

 

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Does anyone still partition disks anymore? I don't.

 

5 disks as you ask. Plus another 5 on my file server (all in raid)

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I have 5 hard drives. Two 160GB SSD's, two 500GB SSD Hybrids and an external 1TB drive.