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Old Mar 7, 2006, 09:19 AM   #1
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Hard Drive Labels -- What Do You Use?
What I've used for years is a combination of the 3 initials of my name plus the date that the drive was formatted. If I did more than one HD on that particular date I add a "a", "b", "c", etc at the end. The label then looks like this:

XYZ010203a

I know anytime after that that I see the label that I'm the one who formatted the drive and which date it was done.

The oldest one that I have presently on any computer was formatted on Nov. 25, 2001.

I think this is a pretty good convention to help keep track of how long your drives are lasting and would work toward helping settle any warranty if needed.

So, what convention do you use on your HD Labels?
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i just lable my drives what they are.

i have 3 HDDs in my rig. 1x36Gb raptor, 2x80Gb Seagates.

they are labled:

1. 36Gb Raptor

2. Seagate RAID 0

As far as warranty and what not goes, that's what serial numbers are for .

if i were to lable my HDDs, i would do something simple. like place a *.txt file in the root of the drive directory.
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Old Mar 7, 2006, 01:01 PM   #3
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I have 3 HDs, but I'll be replacing 2 with 1 300GB, so I'll be left with 2 300 giggers, and
also I'll be reducing my partitions. Currently:

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I have three drives installed;

C: Main
D: Media
E: Storage

Main is uded for XP and Games, Media is where I store my Music, Movies etc, and Storage is my backup/temp drive

I do like your naming scheme, it makes sense but with the gf using my machine as well I try to keep it to things that make sense to a woman!!!
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i have several drives, ide/sata/usb, none are named but my mp3 player partitions (yes i partitioned it), which are simply named "music" and "data"
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