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 #22 Friday, April 26, 2013 2:34 PM
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.
Reply #24 Friday, April 26, 2013 4:16 PM
Does anyone still partition disks anymore? I don't.
5 disks as you ask. Plus another 5 on my file server (all in raid)
Reply #25 Friday, April 26, 2013 4:29 PM
I have 5 hard drives. Two 160GB SSD's, two 500GB SSD Hybrids and an external 1TB drive.
Reply #26 Friday, April 26, 2013 7:23 PM
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.
Reply #27 Saturday, April 27, 2013 12:40 AM
1 Hard Drive (2TB) and 4 externals (all 2TB) and 4 flash drives (16GB each). Need backups just incase shit hits the fan. 
Reply #28 Saturday, April 27, 2013 1:00 AM
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.
Reply #29 Saturday, April 27, 2013 4:38 AM
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.
Reply #30 Saturday, April 27, 2013 12:04 PM
Drives C,D,E (640GBs) ,F (1TB) physical drives single partition each
Drive G is 2 physical hard drives (1TB) in JBOD
Reply #31 Saturday, April 27, 2013 12:50 PM
On my desktop where I do most of my serious work:
1 SSD, 2 HDD, Blu-ray, 1 VirtualClone Drive, 1 Always plugged in USB2 (1TB), 1 always plugged in USB3 (512GB), Room for other usb/sd storage, & 4 permanently mapped NAS drives.
Reply #33 Monday, May 13, 2013 5:17 AM
i have 9 drives currently if they have a partition (yes) if not (no)
main drive sdd with a 100mb partition cache and all that bootmanager stuff on the partition (yes/no) i dont see this as real partition...
then a spinpoint (small HDD) with high rpm (no)
3 always running ext USB2 (no)
1 always running ext USB3 (no)
and another 3 USB backup drives with low rpm since i hardly plug them. (no)
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Reply #21 Thursday, December 6, 2012 1:20 PM
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.