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Elysium
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2011-03-16, 19:42

Hackintosh
1) Interloper (OS X)
2). Virus (Windows)

External HD: Domesday

iPhone: Squawk Box
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drewprops
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Join Date: May 2004
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2011-03-16, 19:45

"Domesday"?
Is that like a celebration of Sir Christopher Wren???


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Bryson
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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2011-03-16, 20:00

It's a book: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book

One of the first ever censuses. (sp?)
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Robo
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2011-03-16, 21:11

Also potentially relevant: the (related) BBC Domesday Project.
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Dave
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2011-03-16, 22:22

My laptop's drive is named "Dave's HD of Infinite Recursion" (yes, there's a link in the drive that points back to the top level). My other favorite is "<drive brand> <capacity> HD of Doom".

When I was a kid, people who did wrong were punished, restricted, and forbidden. Now, when someone does wrong, all of the rest of us are punished, restricted, and forbidden... and the one who did the wrong is counselled and "understood" and fed ice cream.
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Ryan
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Join Date: May 2004
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2011-03-17, 16:44

My naming scheme is characters from MASH.

My MacBook Pro is Hawkeye.
Old 12” Powerbook repurposed as a server is a Klinger.
Time Machine drive is Colonel Potter.
iPhone is Radar.
Extra hard drive is Trapper.
USB flash drive is Frank Burns.

Wifi network is just “4077."
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Kraetos
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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2011-03-17, 18:47

My gear is named after the children of Hyperion:

MacBook Pro: Helios
iPad: Selene
iPhone: Eos

External drive: split, half for time machine (Time Machine) and half for storage (creatively named Storage 500).

WiFi: Red Rocket. Used to be Valhalla (mixed mythology, I know, shut up) but then I changed it to Red Rocket when I changed the password to a throwaway, since in the age of iPhone, everyone wants to get on the WiFi...

(Can you guess the password? I bet you can...)

Also, this thread amuses me because from the front page it shows up as "The Ultimate List of Hard..."

Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end.
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kieran
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2011-03-17, 19:14

MBA: MacBook Air
iPod nano: Nano jawn
Time Capsule: Time Capsule

I'm not very creative, nor do I really name everything.
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schalliol
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2011-03-19, 00:12

I'm really boring for drives:
In my MacBook Pro I have simply "SSD" (for the ExpressCard SSD boot volume) and "Mobile RAID" for the 2x500GB RAID 0

In my Mac Pro I have "3TB RAID" for the 4x 750 internal document array and "SSD RAID" for the dual SSD stripe array that's the startup voume.

...but it works for me :-)

Jack, rest in peace. I know you sold your HDTV, and I'm sure you're using a 200 incher right now!
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digitaldave
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2011-03-19, 03:37

Quote:
Originally Posted by drewprops View Post
Heward's handy haversack
As a long time RPGer, I think you should go with this option .

As for mine, I'm very uninventive, my current MBP HD is called... Macintosh HD . I think I'll do some renaming, probably using names from the Appleseed series of manga/anime.

My Airport used to be called Cupertino, but when I upgraded to a Time Capsule, I changed it to Infinite Loop.
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Mac+
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2011-03-19, 04:56

Quote:
Originally Posted by schalliol View Post
I'm really boring for drives:
In my MacBook Pro I have simply "SSD" (for the ExpressCard SSD boot volume) and "Mobile RAID" for the 2x500GB RAID
Hi schalliol - I'm interested in picking up an Express Card SSD for a boot volume. What model/size do you have and are you happy with it?
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curiousuburb
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2011-03-19, 07:28

Mini : Prometheus (first Superdrive = Bringer of Fire)
MBP17 : Hephaestus (God of Technology/Blacksmith/Artisan)
iPhone : Uhura (Black communicator)

Don't think I named the MBP internal drive or it's windows partition, and IIRC most of my externals or thumbs are boringly named with their sizes... LaCie600, Passport320, Lexar16, etc... although my Time Machine 1TB might be Monolith due to its sleek black design.

This thread is prompting me... might be time for a more consistent naming scheme.

All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.
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drewprops
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Join Date: May 2004
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2011-03-19, 11:07

I've become afraid to rename a lappy's HDD for fear it will break something. Unfounded fear?


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arteggio
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2011-03-19, 13:22

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Originally Posted by drewprops View Post
I've become afraid to rename a lappy's HDD for fear it will break something. Unfounded fear?
I've renamed my Mac HD for years. It's so easy and harmless that you can open up the Computer view in Finder, tap your HD's name, and in a moment it will highlight itself. (Or right click and there's the Rename option.) If you're on a PC, I don't think it's harmful, but one never knows...

I used to do planets and moons: Mars, Pluto, Phobos... Then I got less celestial, and that's where I stand today.

iPhone 4: i4
iPad: Tablet
Time Machine: Vault
External drives: Storage, Archive

Minimalistic, I suppose.
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Brad
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2011-03-19, 13:32

Quote:
Originally Posted by drewprops View Post
I've become afraid to rename a lappy's HDD for fear it will break something. Unfounded fear?


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Unfounded. The boot drive's name is purely cosmetic. Changing external drive names may have side effects if you have some custom shell scripts or programs trying to sync data using hard-coded paths or something, but the boot drive name is used for virtually nothing.

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zsummers
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2011-03-19, 14:09

MBA: TheFlash
MBP: Sweetness34
WiFi network: Death From Above
iPhone: It's all in my pants now*
iPod shuffle: Do Not Eat

*This was embarrassing when taken to the genius bar recently, and will be changed in the near future. It popped on up the diagnostic tool, and the Genius looked at me with a quizzical smile, I looked at her, and then I realized what I'd done....

"How could you falter / when you're the Rock of Gibralter? / I had to get off the boat so I could walk on water. / This ain't no tall order. / This is nothing to me. / Difficult takes a day. / Impossible takes a week."
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Robo
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2011-03-19, 15:30

Quote:
Originally Posted by zsummers View Post
MBA: TheFlash
MBP: Sweetness34
WiFi network: Death From Above
iPhone: It's all in my pants now*
iPod shuffle: Do Not Eat

*This was embarrassing when taken to the genius bar recently, and will be changed in the near future. It popped on up the diagnostic tool, and the Genius looked at me with a quizzical smile, I looked at her, and then I realized what I'd done....
Embarrassing? Try awesome. You probably made that frantically overworked Genius's day.

You should change your iPhone to "Upper Class Status Symbol," to be all ironic.
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drewprops
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2011-03-19, 15:41

If she was cute and single you could rename your phone "You're cute and I have a big penis, Applegirl, wanna date?"


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Robo
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2011-03-20, 22:50

If I ever got an external HDD, I'd name it "Hard Drive 2: Drive Harder."

Which sounds like a porno. But that probably wouldn't be inappropriate.
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Bryson
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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2011-03-21, 01:26

Is Sir's collection becoming too large for the internal?


Spoiler (click to toggle):
I genuinely didn't mean that to sound quite as dirty as it does when I wrote it. But I stand by it.
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aDecadeUnder
 
 
2011-11-04, 01:30

My Time Machine back up is named DeLorean, my MBP's internal hd is Adora (She-Ra) and my other external hd is Grayskull
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Escher
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Join Date: May 2004
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2011-11-04, 16:15

The Windows partition on the family iMac is called Winblows!

My Mac HDDs' names are not worth noting...
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Brad
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2011-11-04, 16:24

Quote:
Originally Posted by aDecadeUnder View Post
My Time Machine back up is named DeLorean
Mine too. Good name.
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Wrao
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2011-11-04, 16:59

So I named my Time Machine external "Tardis" because it is smaller in dimensions than my old external but has more capacity inside, and also you know, time travel. My primary system drive is called.... Macintosh HD, and my Windows Bootcamp partition is called BOOTCAMP.
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Wingedhamster
 
 
2013-03-04, 19:17

I named my 1 TB external hard drive, The Vault.
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Ebby
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2013-03-04, 20:09

Oh wow how have I missed this thread? Lets see...

1) Little Cray
2) Portabella
3) Ebbypod
4) Mercury
5) Goliath
6) Dolos
7) Moya
8) Speedy Brain
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Boomerangmacuser
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2013-03-12, 20:58

I have a river rock wallpaper on my iMac, so I named the HDD "Pebbles".

I never bother renaming my Windows boxes. Weird.
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Shoopes
 
 
2015-03-08, 21:25

Ok, I've decided to go with my favorite characters from my 80s childhood. Mainly because dealing with hard drives and technical crap can be frustrating so if I name the drives something warm & fuzzy, it might release some endorphins while editing.

Kermit
Mrs. Piggy
Papa Smurf
Smurfette
Fozzie Bear
Animal
Tweetie Bird
Snoopy
Curious George


You get the idea.
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KINGKARNIVOR
 
 
2015-07-27, 10:52

It was when I got my first external hard drive that I started and have been naming them religiously since.

First one was Kraken, a 400GB and then I continued with another mythical creature, Balgorg from Citadel Combat Cards in the Warhammer universe for my 3TB. Then I chose Zangief for my 4TB after the Street Fighter character.

Smaller flashdrives get correspondingly less grand names:
Pippa 4GB
Mrs Reynolds 4GB

My internal hard drives are treated with less reverence again. My Local Disk is named Deirdre Rachid after the late great Coronation Street charater played by Anne Kirkbride.
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