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by rbanffy 4049 days ago
This could be automated. A very simple computer with a SATA port and a USB label printer should be able to neatly print a tag with relevant drive data for every drive it sees through the SATA port.

At least the human error part would be mitigated. With some clever connector design, I guess a drive could be labeled in 5 seconds or less. If you do it for all drives before mounting, you'd get a single standard label for every unit.
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atYevP 4048 days ago
Definitely something to consider if we scale this up. Right now if we were to propose that to our ops team their heads might explode. Gotta make sure they are open to new workflows first :*D
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rbanffy 4048 days ago
> Right now if we were to propose that to our ops team their heads might explode.

Please don't. I wouldn't like to be responsible for such a disaster. Those are nice folks.

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atYevP 4048 days ago
They ARE nice folks. I shall tell them you said so. They like the positive reinforcement :)
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