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[SupraGuy (#92823)]

 Name my portable hard drive!

[Avalanche (#92065)]

Makoto of course!

Or Kyoko perhaps (I have been bitten by the Ikkoku bug!)...

And now that I think of it - Horo!

[Zefiris (#127560)]

My vote was for Sanae Supra

[Anothar (#136418)]

Her name is Motoko, not Makoto in Ghost in the Shell

[Ken Hayashi (#52012)]

Motoko for the 1TB drive. Ritsuko (Sniper Girl) for the 500GB one.

[SupraGuy (#92823)]

@Anothar: Oops. Typo.

@Zefiris: Heh. Yeah, I think that would work out, too.

@Aval: I already have a drive named Kyouko. Even dropping the "u" for different romanisation rules, that would start to confuse even me. Horo? Spice and Wolf? Haven't seen that yet.

[Ken Hayashi (#52012)]

[heprea (#51849)]

Some great names there but, imo best choice would be Chiyo.

[cranston (#84421)]

If you've already got a Inoue Kikuko theme going, why not keep it up if possible? What are the current names you have? Other than Belldandy. I'm sure you've got Belldandy.

I vote for Sanae (also voiced by Inoue Kikuko). Another suggestion is Shatyarn from Galaxy Angel but she never appeared in the anime.

[SupraGuy (#92823)]

I wouldn't say that it's a "theme" but there are currently 3 drives with named of characters which Inoue Kikuko voiced.

They are Belldandy (Ah My Goddess), Chitose (Chobits) and Mizuho (Onegai Teacher/Onegai Twins)

Funny that you would say that you're sure that I'd have Belldandy... That's actually one of the newest. The one that I've had the longest would be Mizuho.

Though I haven't looked specifically, there are probably as many who are voiced by Tanaka Rie in that list.

[Rosepetals (#42525)]

I vote for Sanae as well. Not just for fitting your trend of Kinuko Inoue voiced characters, but I think it's a nice name.

[SupraGuy (#92823)]

Heh. I've got 3 people saying that they voted Sanae, but there are only 2 votes for that name in the poll. Actually, I like that name too.

[jsy3k (#32616)]

I voted for Sanae from Clannad for her "great" taste in bread =P

[cranston (#84421)]

[Rosepetals (#42525)]

[Malaki (#40410)]

A 1TB drive should be nicknamed Terry...nothing more, nothing less.

[Veleon (#124559)]

Bartender-Rex

[SupraGuy (#92823)]

@Rose: Wierd...

Well, unless it did allow Rose to vote, or something else strange happened, then Sanae is now in the lead, with the voting closing "soon"

Mokoto is either tied or just behind that.

Sorry, I'm not going to use "Terry" for various reasons, not the least of which is that it certainly isn't going to be my only 1TB drive. (Well, I may not buy many more of them with the 1.5TB drives hitting a similar price point.

[cranston (#84421)]

[Ken Hayashi (#52012)]

[SupraGuy (#92823)]

Damnit! I HAVE, my fingers just won't cooperate when I'm typing the name. I've seen the movie, Innocence, SAC, 2nd gig, SSS... I've seen everything animated in the GITS series.

Normally my typing isn't htat that bad, but I do get my dyslexic moments.

Edit: The above typo wasn't on purpose, but...

[Ken Hayashi (#52012)]

You need a new pair of glasses.

[SupraGuy (#92823)]

Well, the time limit on the poll is coming to a close, and it appears that Sanae is inthe lead. As such, at least one of the drives will get that name. I may pull veto on the second one, or not.

Edit: Oct 20/2009

It seems that the winner is Sanae, with Mokoto in 2nd. I don't know if I'll use that for the other drive, though I haven't removed it from the static bag yet...

Edit again, Oct 25/2009

Okay, I just got notification that the drive has been shipped. In the meantime, I bought a 1.5TB drive (They were on sale, and I couldn't resist!) and named it Yayoi.

[SupraGuy (#92823)]

Chii packed it in, and is being shipped out for warranty replacement.

Current drives (As of last night, when I added 2 more 1.5TB drives)

arashi
belldandy
chidori
chii (Currently out of commission)
chitose
chitose
haruka
kouko
kyouko
lisanthius
miaso
mikuru
miyu
mizuho
rin
sakura
sakuya
sanae
shana
teletha
tifa
uraha
yoko

I'm in the process of moving these drives from the various machines around the house and into a NAS server if for no other reason than to make things more simple. I've got a box which has 8 on-board SATA connectors, and put in 2 additional 6 port SATA controller cards, as well as an additional 6 USB 2.0 ports and 4 USB 3.0 ports. (Making 14 USB ports in total.) with 8 eSATA ports and all of that USB, I ought to be good for expansion for a while, and then I can properly centralise my storage.

[Caddberry (#27690)]

Wow.. I thought I was bad..

I was going to go with NAS, but I didn't want my hard drives spinning all the time for nothing.. So I'm going with a shelf option. ~_^

[SupraGuy (#92823)]

I'm building it around FreeNAS, which has the option to spin down the drives if they're not accessed in a certain timeframe. I'm upgrading my USB enclosures to ones with power management as well, to do the same thing, if for no other reason than to keep things cool.

I was planning to build it on an Atom mobo, but I got ahold of an older mobo with a Celeron soldered on, which still has all of the APM features, though the on-board SATA is only SATA1, but considering that's still faster than the gigabit ethernet, I figure that's not a problem.

If I wanted to grab stuff off of a shelf, I'd just use DVD archives anyway, the point of this is that the storage is on-line when I want it.

For what it's worth, yes, I admit that it's a problem. Though with the price of drives where it is, it's easy enough to just start to cycle older drives out in favor of new ones.

[Caddberry (#27690)]