I can't be the only one who does stupid crap like this, am I? If not I wanna know what yours are named!
That's a lot of memory!
Ignore the 2tb drive, it's had it's dozens of near-death episodes : )
I name them for what should be on them...
Damn you people have a lot of storage space. I only have a total of 1TB on my rig and I only use about 500GB of it.
It all started out with a 500gb drive for me. Suddenly needed more over the times. : p
2TB of what I have is anime and movies
+ alot of software, video projects, games etc.
Gonna be th assclown and say "NO". Though I can't find any clever names that are relevant to "storage" or "data". Also, still can't find ANY custom icons for drives that are not Mac'ish or ridiculous
Also, fun fact, ALT+PRTSCRN does a snap shot of JUST the selected window/message box.
edit: that's not all my drives, drive P is a hot swap SATA enclosure, which I swap out with any SATA drive I have laying around, currently it's my old and abused Seagate 320GB and 160GB. I also have a 2.5" drive hot swap enclosure for any drive I have laying around, currently a Microsoft/Toshiba 120GB and a Toshiba 160GB. And then there's the ancient ass USB Seagate 300GB, which is IDE based.
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Why do you have so many games? Why not delete them once you're done playing them? I have 15+ games on steam, and only 5 installed, and all my priated games I uninstall after I'm done with them.
I'm ecletic, and randomly play/replay different things, get bored of one game, jump to another, go back to the game I was playing. It's also a thing I've had going on for a while, and doing art, I like to replay certain games to get inspiration.
Also currently on a shit slow connection, so when I download something from Steam, I don't have the urge to uninstall after I'm done, that's why that drive is a 750 gig drive :)
That drive is also storage for all my older backed up games, all legit believe it or not, kept over from my Win 95/98 days, discs were getting badly scratched, so made proper rips of each disk.
I like your E drive. lol.
Thats a lot of freaking games, I have never even played half of the games I own on steam. I couldn't image having that many installed.
Local Disk (C:) is my Patriot Wildfire SSD and boot drive. The Information Vault is a WD Black RAID 0 array were I put all my documents, movies, steam games, and any other random information I need stored. The Backup Drive is an old Hitachi Deskstar where I manually save important files that I don't want to disappear forever.
It's also my storage for all my old games....legit rips :)
Hmm, RAID 0, I never trust that...
Don't know why. It's just as reliable as JBOD. Unless you're a RAID 1 fanatic, there's no reason not to trust RAID 0.
It's less secure than JBOD.
With a JBOD, you only lose the data on 1 drive.
With RAID 0, you lose ALL your data.
And yes, I'm a RAID 1/10/5/6 fanatic :P
Yeah, but if you have a JBOD as your boot drive with nothing backing it up, then you're going to lose all your data anyway if it fails. The only difference between JBOD and RAID 0 is that one has two or more drives and the other only has one. The only reason people say RAID 0 is less reliable is because of probability. When you buy more and more drives, you're going to get a bad one eventually. The more drives you add to a RAID 0 array, the more probable it is that you're going to get a bad drive.
From my experience, though, I've found that hard drives are usually the last thing in a computer to fail. I've only ever had one hard drive crap out on me, and that was after five or more years of use. It was also from a Gateway that was put together in 2000. Other than that I've never had a hard drive fail. It's extremely rare for hard drives to fail, especially in today's world.
I have seen tons of drives fail in the past 7 years.
Most of those are due to shocks, but I've had a few drives fail on me in my during normal use too. Last month, one of my OS drives died, lucky I'm running RAID 10, so I just had to swap a new one in.
Also, consumer level drives are not made to run in RAID, so that can give conflicts too. I've had countless drives just drop out of a RAID array for no reason, quite irritating to be woken up by a beeping RAID card at 3AM.