It would be nice if the directory of a disk could be checked without spinning up the disk. I have 10 disks with stuff spread somewhat evenly across them. I being forgetfull do not allways remember where I put stuff. For me quite a few "spinups" could be saved if checking the directory was like checking free space.

It would be nice if the directory of a disk could be checked without spinning up the disk. I have 10 disks with stuff spread somewhat evenly across them. I being forgetfull do not allways remember where I put stuff. For me quite a few "spinups" could be saved if checking the directory was like checking free space.

 

Seconded.  This would be terrific.

 

Interesting idea.  When I know I will be searching around multiple disks for something, I go to the Management Utility and click "Check" to start a parity check - and then click "Cancel".  This results in spinning up all the drives.  But I know this isn't what you're asking for...

Yeah, it's not the delay, I'd just prefer the drives not spin up at all if all I'm doing is browsing the root directory.

I know it has been i while for this thread, but is there any update on this one?

 

dont know if this would be hard too implement (prolly is, otherwish u would have done it alrdy i guess)

 

in short: bump

This is a very interesting idea because I suffer from the lack of short term memory  What I have been also working on is trying to figure out some way to catalog what I have on my array for 2 reasons

 

1). As stated above, searching through the array for that one file

2). What if a drive for whatever reason is not recoverable and all the data on the drive is lost and we can't get it back. Yes, we are using a form of RAID to hopefully prevent this event from occurring, but anything is possible. What I would love to know if I lost data is, WHAT DID I LOOSE. I think it would be a great feature to add some sort of table that the array keeps track of what data is located on each drive, dir, etc.

 

My idea is simple and would look something like this

 

Disk1

/DVDs

...Phish 11-6-98

...Phish 11-7-98

 

etc. I know that there is a DOS command for this exact thing, but it would be awesome that anytime we added, deleted, or changed any of the files the array would catalog that change and store it somewhere!!

 

Anyone else think they could use this? It would be great if you ever did loose data because if you are like me, you have backed everything up on DVD's prior to pushing data to the array

 

I too cannot always keep track of all the "stuff" I'm accumulating and with greater storage this grows ever worse! However I'm not sure I'd want the overhead of some sort of catalog process running every time a file gets moved,removed, or added to a drive. At least not something running on the array itself. Caching a top level directory might be nice just from a response standpoint but where would that get stored, how would it be maintained, and would we have enough memory on a standard install of 512megs? I'm really interested in speed and response improvements so adding overhead, particularly overhead that isn't a run once sort of thing, concerns me...

BLKMGK: Very good points, I was just throwing some ideas out there 

etc. I know that there is a DOS command for this exact thing, but it would be awesome that anytime we added, deleted, or changed any of the files the array would catalog that change and store it somewhere!!

 

could u plzz tell what that command is 

Sure the command would be:

 

dir z: /s > test.txt

 

It gives you ever detailed information and breaks down the entire directory structure!