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Old 07-16-2004, 02:47 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Name My Harddrive!

Okay, my new G5 will be here Monday and I've having some "writer's block" when it comes to naming the new drive.

It's coming with a 160GB internal and I have a 160GB and a 15GB external firewire drives that'll be used with it, too.

My current G4 has 4 drives: 60GB "Big", 120GB "Bigger", 160GB "Biggest", & 15GB "Lil' Bit". They used to be named, "Sol", "Terra", "Luna", "Mars" (with corresponding icons) just to give you an idea on how my mind works.

This is my computer at work, so it can't be "Porn" and "More Porn" if that's what you're thinking.

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Old 07-16-2004, 02:49 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 07-16-2004, 02:53 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Old 07-16-2004, 02:56 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Old 07-16-2004, 03:12 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Old 07-16-2004, 03:15 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I name all my drives as comic book characters, and whever possible the drive letter corresponds with the drive letter

IE C:/ = Cyclops
H:/ = Hulk (that's the biggest one too)
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Old 07-16-2004, 03:31 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Mine are Bigbox and Fatbox. Subsequent ones will probably be named in a similar fashion - Giantbox, Hugebox, Gargantbox, Godbox, Galacticbox, Cosmobox etc
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Old 07-16-2004, 03:35 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Old 07-16-2004, 03:56 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Versus?

THGL:

Was there any particular reason you bought a desktop G5 now instead of waiting for a laptop version? Do you have a reason for a laptop version?

The reason I ask is that I'm looking into making The Big Switch after x^x years of pissing around with IBM whiteboxes... I'm fed up with Microsoft and would like to go back to Apple (my elementary school way back in the day was the first in Ontario to have a Mac lab, so I grew up with them).
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Old 07-16-2004, 04:09 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Old 07-16-2004, 04:11 PM   #11 (permalink)
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My understanding as a mac user is that a G5 notebook is not exactly on the horizon. Something about they were having difficulties making the chip and support apparatus small enough with all of the cooling requirements. Hell, they didn't even make it to the predicted 3.0 ghz desktops... Not to mention the dual processor option of the desktop=sweetness.
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Old 07-16-2004, 04:21 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Hmm... just named mine after the models:

WD Raptor 74 (C)
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Old 07-16-2004, 09:25 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Old 07-16-2004, 09:30 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Trache, I'm a graphic designer and this is (will be) my work computer. A laptop wouldn't be a good choice for me because of the upgradeability (is that even a word?) of the desktop model. My current G4 has gone through multiple upgrades (add'l HDD, vid card, chip replacement [450Mhz to 1Ghz]) that I don't think would be as easy to do, or even possible, with a laptop.

I've also gotten spoiled with my 22" Cinema Display so even the 17" Powerbook seems rather small to me.

For a home computer, I would consider getting a Powerbook if they weren't as expensive as they are.
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Old 07-16-2004, 11:43 PM   #15 (permalink)
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i like to call mine "boot".



so uncreative.
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Old 07-17-2004, 12:40 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Old 07-17-2004, 01:32 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Old 07-17-2004, 06:22 PM   #18 (permalink)
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I have mine named win98, winxp, media, and Xdrive (my usb drive)

I'd go with manufacturer names, so if something goes wrong you always refer to it correctly.
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Old 07-17-2004, 10:31 PM   #19 (permalink)
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This is totally non-pertinent to the subject at hand, but (literally) right as I was scrolling down and reading this post, the opening credits for South Park ran.
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Old 07-17-2004, 10:35 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Old 07-19-2004, 12:50 PM   #21 (permalink)
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LOCAL DISK1 (C: )
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LOCAL DISK3 (E: )
LOCAL DISK4 (F: )

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Old 07-19-2004, 01:59 PM   #22 (permalink)
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i'd call it "Big Mac"

or something out of futurama.
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Old 07-19-2004, 02:02 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Old 07-21-2004, 10:50 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Old 07-23-2004, 12:07 PM   #25 (permalink)
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We had an iMac named Kenny at work as a scanning station. It bit the dust hard. In retrospect, maybe that was not such a good naming choice.
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Old 07-23-2004, 12:11 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Old 07-23-2004, 06:13 PM   #27 (permalink)
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I've got a G4 as a media server at work with 3 - 120GB drives.. and 1 20GB drive

The drives are called Larry, Moe, and Curly... the OS drive is Shemp...

Name it Trogdor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 07-24-2004, 05:23 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Old 07-25-2004, 02:21 AM   #29 (permalink)
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so uncreative.
thats what i was thinking when i was reading this, i have no names for any of mine
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Old 07-25-2004, 02:30 AM   #30 (permalink)
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