How Many Drives or Partitions Do You Have?

Help Me Skin DX

Published on December 5, 2012 By RedneckDude In OS Customization

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.

Comments (Page 2)

Quicksilver007

on Dec 06, 2012

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

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

CarGuy1

on Dec 06, 2012

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?

RedneckDude

on Dec 06, 2012

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

RedneckDude

on Dec 06, 2012

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

Fuzzy Logic

on Dec 06, 2012

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

benmanns

on Dec 06, 2012

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.

poormonknm

on Apr 26, 2013

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.

RedneckDude

on Apr 26, 2013

poormonknm

reply 22

Dick 1 vol 2 is backup

TwoWolves

on Apr 26, 2013

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

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

LightStar

on Apr 26, 2013

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

Robert_Snyder

on Apr 26, 2013

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.

Hawawaa

on Apr 27, 2013

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

Zeta1127

on Apr 27, 2013

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.

rahal

on Apr 27, 2013

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.

Lantec

on Apr 27, 2013

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

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

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