I think I have a Drive Fetish

Scannerman · Sep 5, 2023

But for good reason. I have family videos, movies, music, pictures and all sorts of media and data. Plus, because of a catastrophic system failure I need hard drive space to re-sort and re-organize all my recovered data. I can always use the drives in other builds I've made for my family if I no longer need them. It's always handy to have extra hard drives on hand. Anyway, I finally figured out a way to illustrate how I got these drives in order in no less than two pictures and I'll share them here. I'm very OCD about the order of my hard drives. I have a lot to keep track of. Perhaps some of you are the same. This is why I'm sharing.

↑↑↑ That's the first set and this is the second ↓↓↓

pparks1 · Sep 5, 2023

It it makes you feel better, at work I have SQL server clusters with 200+ Fiber attached LUN's being presented. We don't use drive letters as there aren't enough of them, we mount them to empty NTFS volumes.

Ghot · Sep 5, 2023

pparks1 said:
It it makes you feel better, at work I have SQL server clusters with 200+ Fiber attached LUN's being presented. We don't use drive letters as there aren't enough of them, we mount them to empty NTFS volumes.

Psst... numbers.

Scannerman · Sep 5, 2023

Ghot said:
Psst... numbers.

I think I'm okay now. I certainly have my work cut out for me this winter. I have one more 10 TB helium filled drive coming in. Hoping to eventually put that drive in cold storage once I save all the family pics and videos to it. I'm not an IT. I'm just a bit of an enthusiast and a PC builder, a Johnny-come-lately from another time. I wouldn't mind upgrading my Windows 7 in RAID 0 at some point to bigger SSDs but it can wait for now. I still have to leave room for Linux.

Scannerman · Sep 6, 2023

Thanks guys. I really do feel better now. The anxiety is dissipating. I know I'm among friends and if I run into any problems I know who to ask for help. *whew* There's no hard drive anonymous where I live. I appreciate the support.

antspants · Sep 6, 2023

There are worse things to have a fetish for, just ask my wife.

Scannerman · Sep 6, 2023

antspants said:
There are worse things to have a fetish for, just ask my wife.

My wife has a yarn fetish. I'm constantly being attacked by the furry things and I'm wondering if that's why the dust that consistently gathers in my PC tends to take on a furry consistency over time.

TechnoMage2021 · Sep 6, 2023

Gosh! Yous guys make me feel like a mere child at this data save game. And I've been at it over 40 years now.

I only have four drives in this computer, that is a home built and once refurbished Mid Tower. (Pac Man Case) The main drive, the one I'm on now, is a 500GB Crucial SSD, then there's two much smaller and older, and slower, spinners, one with Windows 8.1/Pro/32 and one with Windows 7/Ultimate/32, and finally a 1TB Toshiba spinner that I've designated as my "Backup Drive".

So, I've got my bases covered, without going totally crazy.
I have one game I like to play, that will only play on Win-7/x86, thus the Win-7 drive. The Win-8.1 drive is just for nostalgia. I really liked that OS!

And, if my Win-11 SSD ever fails, I can (F-12) boot up to Win-8.1 and "Keep on Truckin'" Program wise, it's a near copy of my Win-11 drive.

If I had as many drives as some of Y'alls, I'd go nuts!

Cheers Mates!
TM

Scannerman · Sep 6, 2023

TechnoMage2021 said:
If I had as many drives as some of Y'alls, I'd go nuts!

Cheers Mates!
TM

Too late. I'm already over the edge and up the other side!

ShamrockRig · Sep 6, 2023

I'd say you had more of a hard drive collection problem/hoarding problem more than a fetish lol
I mean who personally has that much data lol!

antspants · Sep 6, 2023

ShamrockRig said:
I'd say you had more of a hard drive collection problem/hoarding problem more than a fetish lol
I mean who personally has that much data lol!

@Scannerman has the largest known photographic collection of sea shells. Those photo’s aren”t going to store themselves, don’tcha know

pparks1 · Sep 6, 2023

antspants said:
@Scannerman has the largest known photographic collection of sea shells. Those photo’s aren”t going to store themselves, don’tcha know

LOL. My favorite post of the day.

Wisewiz · Sep 6, 2023

@Scannerman

You've got my interest so much that I think I'll install two new SSDs on each of my machines later today, JFTHOI. (Just for the ...)

ShamrockRig · Sep 6, 2023

antspants said:
@Scannerman has the largest known photographic collection of sea shells. Those photo’s aren”t going to store themselves, don’tcha know

Sea shells sea shells on the sea floor

mackie · Sep 6, 2023

Very impressive Scannerman……. That you have never willingly turned away a single bit or a byte.

archfoto · Sep 6, 2023

You must have a crazy setup of USB ports! I thought I had too much with only 4 external drives, and cut down to 3! How do you know what data is where? I use a free program called Cathy to keep track of what is on all my retired drives.

Scannerman · Sep 7, 2023

ShamrockRig said:
I'd say you had more of a hard drive collection problem/hoarding problem more than a fetish lol
I mean who personally has that much data lol!

A: Me

Scannerman · Sep 7, 2023

archfoto said:
You must have a crazy setup of USB ports! I thought I had too much with only 4 external drives, and cut down to 3! How do you know what data is where? I use a free program called Cathy to keep track of what is on all my retired drives.

This is why I endeavour to keep all my drives in alphabetical order. I'm curious about Cathy though. I might have some use for her.

Scannerman · Sep 7, 2023

mackie said:
Very impressive Scannerman……. That you have never willingly turned away a single bit or a byte.

I don't have to concern myself with turning away bits and bytes when Windows Recovery overwrites all my backups and hangs me out to dry.

Scannerman · Sep 7, 2023

archfoto said:
You must have a crazy setup of USB ports!

I'm not opposed to external hard drives but most of what you see in those pictures isn't running off USB ports. In fact, drive letters X and Y were reserved for my toaster. I'm getting to that stage where I'm going to have to start mounting USB drives. I'm hoping when I'm done sorting I won't be needing half of these drives on this PC.