December 9, 200916 yr Hi, I would like to see the possibility to add notes for each HD. This is because I noticed that I lose the overview which HD I bought from which company and how old this drive is. by F451
December 9, 200916 yr Hi this has been requested a few times with good feedback about its usefulness from te community. I dont believe there has been a Limetech comment on it so perhaps its time to discuss again
December 9, 200916 yr Hi, I would like to see the possibility to add notes for each HD. This is because I noticed that I lose the overview which HD I bought from which company and how old this drive is. by F451 Fortunately, the replacement process for most drives is direct to the manufacturer, and not the place you purchased them from... Most manufacturers have a web-site where you enter the model and serial number of the drive and they will tell you when it was manufactured and if it is in warranty. As already mentioned, the myMain plug-in in unMENU allows you to keep notes per disk drive.
December 9, 200916 yr Quoting that unMENU has the functionality is absolutely necessary.... However we need to be clear this is the request forum for unRAID and not unsupported user addons. Most feature requests have 3 types of reply: 1. I want this feature first before this one 2. You can do it yourself via a hack 3. This is a good/bad idea Only the last one is valid for this forum. Again I am NOT saying we shouldn't discuss freely options 1 and 2 but we should not lose focus that option 3 is the whole point of this forum. Perhaps we need a second feature request forum, community features.
December 9, 200916 yr Quoting that unMENU has the functionality is absolutely necessary.... However we need to be clear this is the request forum for unRAID and not unsupported user addons. Most feature requests have 3 types of reply: 1. I want this feature first before this one 2. You can do it yourself via a hack 3. This is a good/bad idea Only the last one is valid for this forum. Again I am NOT saying we shouldn't discuss freely options 1 and 2 but we should not lose focus that option 3 is the whole point of this forum. Your point is well made. You are correct. Others have made this same request. If you create a text file on one of your disks, you can access it from the web by referencing it by name. If you create a file named "disks.txt" and put it at the root of disk1, you can see its contents by typing in your browser //tower/share/disk1/disks.txt or //tower/share/user/disks.txt It is a hack, but you can keep track of your disks. Joe L.
December 10, 200916 yr If you create a file named "disks.txt" and put it at the root of disk1, you can see its contents by typing in your browser //tower/share/disk1/disks.txt or //tower/share/user/disks.txt It is a hack, but you can keep track of your disks. Unless two drives die on you... I think this needs to be stored off-disk. Gog
December 10, 200916 yr I simply took a screenshot of the devices page (from unRaid GUI) and made notes on the image. This shows me the serial numbers and the slot they were assigned to.
December 16, 200916 yr I simply took a screenshot of the devices page (from unRaid GUI) and made notes on the image. This shows me the serial numbers and the slot they were assigned to. This is what I do too. Ah, the glory of MS Paint.
December 17, 200916 yr I simply took a screenshot of the devices page (from unRaid GUI) and made notes on the image. This shows me the serial numbers and the slot they were assigned to. Almost what I did, I printed mine out and wrote on it with a pen!
December 18, 200916 yr Fortunately, the replacement process for most drives is direct to the manufacturer, and not the place you purchased them from... Most manufacturers have a web-site where you enter the model and serial number of the drive and they will tell you when it was manufactured and if it is in warranty. Joe, that is not always the case! I have here a Gold Seagate Partner who will *immediately* swap out Seagate drives and later deal with Seagate directly on its own. So one do not have to go through Seagate's process and wait about a week for the new drive to show up.
December 18, 200916 yr Fortunately, the replacement process for most drives is direct to the manufacturer, and not the place you purchased them from... Most manufacturers have a web-site where you enter the model and serial number of the drive and they will tell you when it was manufactured and if it is in warranty. Joe, that is not always the case! I have here a Gold Seagate Partner who will *immediately* swap out Seagate drives and later deal with Seagate directly on its own. So one do not have to go through Seagate's process and wait about a week for the new drive to show up. Seagates advanced replacement will get you a drive in 2-3 days depending on what time you order during the day. Granted this does usually cost $20ish but it is fairly painless.
December 19, 200916 yr Yes, it is in any case an alternative if there is no premium reseller in the neighbourhood. Otherwise I get the replacement drive asap, no questions asked. Anyway, Seagate's return policy is fair enough.
December 28, 200916 yr Just wanted to add my 2cents that I would like to see this implemented as well, or at least an easier way than editing the config file in unmenu. I"m still new to Linux, and I'm a little unsure how to start with editing the mymain config file to include the notes. A quick and easy way to add a note would be a tremendous help.
December 28, 200916 yr Perhaps unMEnu discussions should be in an unMenu thread. Not being critical but focus on feature requests for unRAID should be kept focused in this thread if the poster has any chance of getting Limetech attention and his request filled
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