How Many Drives or Partitions Do You Have?
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by RedneckDude | Discussion: 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.
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Reply #2 Wednesday, December 5, 2012 8:47 PM
Ok, my bad. Please omit CD/DVD drives. They do not show up in the drives meter.
Reply #4 Wednesday, December 5, 2012 9:23 PM
In general I have always had two drives. They used to be C (traditional hard drive) and D (removable media drive). I now have C (SSD) and D (traditional hard drive) and no dedicated removable drive. If I need one, I plug in a USB drive temporarily.
Hope that helps.
Reply #5 Wednesday, December 5, 2012 9:35 PM
C, D, G, H, J, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z.
E, & F are DVDs
When plugged in there's also an I ...Camera/Phone/USB
Reply #6 Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:32 PM
Damn, Jafo. I can't get all that one a background...lol
Reply #7 Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:48 PM
C: D: E: F: G: H: separate drives and 1 external TB backup drive
Reply #8 Wednesday, December 5, 2012 11:11 PM
C is an SSD RAID Array while D, E, M, & O are separate platter drives. there's also a separate eSATA backup drive (T).
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Reply #11 Thursday, December 6, 2012 12:29 AM
Betamax...reel to reel...cassette...8-track...etch-a-sketch...drives in the country...and I have 4 partitions in my apartment. 
Reply #12 Thursday, December 6, 2012 2:13 AM
some of my comps have only two drives with three drive letters, my main machine has four internal drives with seven assigned drive letters/partitions and THREE external hdds(c,d,e,f,g,i,k,l,m,&p) + typically four usb sticks , my b2 has four drives with four letters, and space to ADD FOUR more hdds internally, my b3 has only 3 hdds with three letters, my b4 has a boot ssd a 500gb boot hdd (with two partitions, and (currently seven but can load NINE) hdds with varing numbers of partitions(currently c,y,f,g,i,l,n,x + networks drives), BUT my lev 530 laptop has ONE drive (750gb) with four partitions(xp,win7 x86,win7x64 and data)
harpo
Reply #13 Thursday, December 6, 2012 3:07 AM
C, D, G, H, I, J, K, L E And F are DVD and BluRay Drives Then i Have my External 3Tb Drive with M, N, O, P And Q partitions 
Reply #15 Thursday, December 6, 2012 7:47 AM
I have 5 drives, two 160GB SSD drives for OS's, two 500GB drives for data and a 1TB drive for data backup. They are partitioned to full capacity on each drive.
Oh, and two DVD drives of course.
Reply #16 Thursday, December 6, 2012 8:09 AM
c: (SSD) separate HDs are D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K for data.
Reply #17 Thursday, December 6, 2012 8:30 AM
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?
Reply #18 Thursday, December 6, 2012 10:57 AM
EDIT: Please omit CD/DVD drives as they do not show up in the meter.
Reply #19 Thursday, December 6, 2012 10:58 AM
Wow...looks like I need to have the meters floating with no size limit. Thanks guys!!
Reply #20 Thursday, December 6, 2012 12:55 PM
1x128Gb SSD, 2x1.5Tb and 1x500Gb hard drives. All that is split into ten partitions.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, December 5, 2012 8:42 PM
I have 6.
C: D: E: (DVD) F: (CD unlocker for my external drive) G: (music/videos) H: Storage (Back ups and stuff)