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How Many Drives or Partitions Do You Have?

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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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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

C and F (500 GB SATA) Internal drives plus G and H (1 TB External USB2) For Backups and Images, respectively. No extra partitions unless you count the hidden boot partition.

Reply #27 from Elemental Forums Top

1 Hard Drive (2TB) and 4 externals (all 2TB) and 4 flash drives (16GB each). Need backups just incase shit hits the fan.  :-"

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Reply #28 from Sins Forums Top

I only have C and F, a partition for video games, set up on my my parents' computer. I sure feel old fashioned after seeing that everyone else has multiple hard drives.

Reply #29 from Elemental Forums Top

I don't see much point in anything more than single internal drive and a backup external anymore.

My next pc is going to be a mini itx.

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Drives C,D,E (640GBs) ,F (1TB) physical drives single partition each

Drive G is 2 physical hard drives (1TB) in JBOD

Reply #31 from Elemental Forums Top

On my desktop where I do most of my serious work:

1 SSD, 2 HDD, Blu-ray, 1 VirtualClone Drive, 1 Always plugged in USB2 (1TB), 1 always plugged in USB3 (512GB), Room for other usb/sd storage, & 4 permanently mapped NAS drives.

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

C, D, E, F, G, and *W.

*W was adopted.  :rolleyes:

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

i have 9 drives currently if they have a partition (yes) if not (no)
main drive sdd with a 100mb partition cache and all that bootmanager stuff on the partition (yes/no) i dont see this as real partition...
then a spinpoint (small HDD) with high rpm (no)
3 always running ext USB2 (no)
1 always running ext USB3 (no)
and another 3 USB backup drives with low rpm since i hardly plug them. (no)