Show better information to find corresponding disk in Drivepool

[JasonC]

It would be nice if Scanner showed something a little bit more useful for easily identifying the corresponding disk in Drivepool. I know deeper integration between the two has been asked for in the past, I'm not even asking for that much. I'd settle for just showing the label of the disk.

Let's say Scanner identifies problems on a disk. You decide to remove it from your pool and replace it. If you have just a a few disks, it might not be a big deal, but if you have a large number of disks, finding the corresponding disk from Scanner to Drivepool is not impossible, but it _is_ painful. You have to do it by serial # of by the raw UNC path and work it backwards. If you haven't done something like put the serial # in the label of the disk, this is a pain in the butt if you have a lot of similar disks because you have to check each one individually to see the serial #.

A simple showing of corresponding pieces of identifying data one one or both apps would make this go away. I'm not asking for deep integration, just a simple QOL change. It's already worrisome enough that you might eject the wrong disk, this is overly complicated just because not even a basic effort to make it not a problem has been made.

Unless there is a simple way, in which case please do tell me, and I apologize for the post.

 

[Shane]

A few options that come to mind:

You can right-click the column labels row in the Scanner GUI and enable display of drive letters if it isn't showing those.

You can right-click a specific disk and select "Disk Settings" to (amongst other options) change the Name of it from the default (the latter usually being its model code) to something you can more easily match with DrivePool.

If you don't use drive letters for your poolpart drives, you can mount them to a path in Windows Disk Manager (e.g. c:\disks\1, c:\disks\2, c:\disks\3, etc) and both Scanner and DrivePool will show that path instead of the drive letter.

[JasonC]

14 hours ago, Shane said:

A few options that come to mind:

You can right-click the column labels row in the Scanner GUI and enable display of drive letters if it isn't showing those.

You can right-click a specific disk and select "Disk Settings" to (amongst other options) change the Name of it from the default (the latter usually being its model code) to something you can more easily match with DrivePool.

If you don't use drive letters for your poolpart drives, you can mount them to a path in Windows Disk Manager (e.g. c:\disks\1, c:\disks\2, c:\disks\3, etc) and both Scanner and DrivePool will show that path instead of the drive letter.

Ah, thanks! I was trying to find something like that, I'll dig around the GUI again and look for that option