Naming your hardware...

Computer hardware that is.

Drives have names. Systems have names. I picked up a Black Friday external 2TB drive which I have named "Hammer Space" to offload backups and media files. The rest of my hard drives are named after characters from various anime series I was watching around the time I first formatted them.

So my question is do you name your hard drives/system and if you do after what?

No >.>

I named my Black case PC... Black Box cuz Windows tells you to >.>

Why would you name things that don't need to be named? the point of naming something is to differentiate them when there are multiples that could be confused with each other and it's important... I suppose if I had another PC I'd name it, but still can't see the point in naming drives... If you have enough to name them it'd probably better just to label them in some categorical way...

I dunno which is more geeky though labeling categorically or naming...

My X-Box 360 Harddrive is named "Zombies" and my memory card is named "Arcane Asylum".

My desktop is called 'Moneypit' because I spent more on it than I probably should have.

My last Desktop, which died, was called 'Bankruptcy' for the same reason.

My Synology NAS box, which started off with 2x500Gb RAID-1, is called 'Cavernous', because when you start off with a half a terabyte to fill, anything you put on it echoes. It's now 2x1Tb drives in a RAID-1, since one of the 500Gb's died and thus the benefits of RAID-1 were made clear

I call my Palm Tungsten T|X 'The Widget' when referring to it, or my 'External Brain', since it remembers things so I don't have to. (Yes, it's pretty much obsolete technology, but I neither want nor need a mobile phone, and I get about a fortnight to a month between charges. Get that on a mobile phone, I dare you :P )

Mine is named after me, that way if my brain is erased, i have a back up online.

Not really, C is always Windows, D is games and I haven't needed another HD (yet). That's about it, my entire collection of music is small enough it doesn't warrant its own drive, its just in Documents.

My first desktop was Super Fun Box, which is a reference I can't link to at the moment and nobody would recognize anyway.

My second desktop was Suiseiseki (because it had green and red lights side by side on the front) and the laptop I got shortly afterward was Souseiseki. Because they were sister computers, I guess.

My third (and current) desktop is Autochthon, because it was the first high-end system I got. So it's the machine god.

My first car was Skippy, because it had such low horsepower that it needed a suitably wimpy name. My second car was really poorly constructed and light, so it was The Toaster. My third car didn't get a name. My fourth car was the first car I bought new, so I intended to give it a cool name, but before I could, my friends listened to Kung Fu Fighting on loop every time we drove anywhere just to annoy me, and deciding that the car should accordingly be named Carl Douglas.

My boot drives are always named "MacGuffin" plus whatever number they fall in the sequence of ownership. That's mainly for practical rather than sentimental reasons, though. Only rarely does hardware earn a nickname for dedicated service. My G4 Sawtooth, which received upgrades for every single major component as well as numerous add-ons, is "Frankenstein's Mac".

I don't name hard drives, but you have to give your system some kind of name. Windows requires it, and so does networking software.

My latest PC is in a huge Antec case (which is awesome, BTW). So I named it 'Monolith'. Keeping with the theme, I named my iPod touch 'Flint'.

My home network is WOPRNet and all the machines on it have WOPR as a prefix and then some other identifier after that.

I'll leave you to get or not get the reference as you will.

My PCs have all been named after characters in Haibane Renmei.

Currently I have machines named Hyouko and Hikari

My computer is named Eliza, after the psuedo artificial intelligence chat bot. It's voice controlled, has a picture of a vector lined female as the background, and I gave it female voice clips for all the event sounds including the welcome "Hello, my name is Eliza." My laptop is named Liz, and my iPhone is named Eli. Yeah, I'm a total computer geek.

My home computers are named for who uses them (i.e., JohnsPC, JanesPC, etc.).

At work I have named our 2 main servers Brainiac and Ultron

The PCs on the network currently sport names like Batman, Thor, IronMan, GreenLantern, Flash, Magneto, Cyclops, SpiderMan.... Luckily my boss is a comic book geek too.

Whenever there are network issues at work, I tell everyone it's just a big crossover "Crisis" event.

I might have some of the details off, but according to a friend of mine, he gave a drive on his laptop that was connected to Pro-Tools a cutesy 15 letter name. Then Pro-Tools stopped working. He spent hours trying to figure out why Pro-Tools wouldn't work. Then he claims he found the answer; Pro-Tools can only handle drive names of 14 letters or less.

good luck D.B.B.

My current desktop is named Deep Thought.

I once had a laptop on which the hard drive was called "Mr. Gates." Sometime, when I use it more, I might name something on my Mac laptop "Mr. Jobs." (Note for the hard of thinking: I am not a fan of either guy; the names are meant to mock them.)

I named my PC KITT.

i'm not into naming individual drives, but i tend to name the computers after some of my dogs that have died, its kind of a little extra memorial to them, a vital part of my days, rather than a name on a stone slab nobody else looks at.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Just named my laptop Malachi. I can't live without my laptop, so it really is a messenger of God.

Back when I was in college our mainframe (yes it was a long time ago) was called Myron. It was replaced with a dual processor mainframe that was named Sibyl (spelling intentional). Students did most of their software development on them.

Today my school's top computer is on the Top500 super computer list, a 32K core, IBM Blue Gene series. It was in the top 10 when it went online 3 1/2 years ago, now it's not even in the top 100. Students now are required to use their own high end laptops preloaded with various engineering and math software. I assume the CS students get copies of Visual Studio for their projects.

Edit: BTW, I name my rigs after mecha, drives after anime characters.

A thread title like that, two pages of responses, and not a single ***** joke.

I don't know whether to be impressed or disappointed.