[clug] [OT] USB drives & SD cards: solutions for organised storage and cataloguing

[Rodney Peters]

On 2020-03-06 07:15, steve jenkin via linux wrote:
> Overnight I started wondering what I’d done with my first USB drive (2006, 128MB, $75 IIRC, now $100 equiv vs ~$0.50/GB now - price per MB has dropped 800-1000 fold in under 15 yrs).
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> Which led me to think “where are all my USB drives & SD cards?”
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> Found the drive and it seems still readable - created a copy using ’tar’.
> Which only defers the problem of cataloguing contents & cleaning up.
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> Does anyone have a nice, preferably easy, solution to this problem of physical storage and external naming of drives?
> And any suggestions for cataloguing the contents.
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> For active digital photographers who have many “off line” media plus camera cards, this is either a well solved problem or they’re in trouble :-/
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> I’ve also got a growing pile of USB HDD drives going back too many years - have backups of some, but no catalogue.
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> Externally, most of them are in a distinctive case or I’ve written a name on them with marker pen.
> For anyone else, my “pile of drives" is completely opaque and would get thrown out if they needed to clean up.
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> How do other people deal with this problem of physical labelling and storing ’the pile’?
> I’d like to be able to lay my hands on a drive reliably and quickly.
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> The obvious way is to clean up & consolidate files to newer drives and sell / throw away older drives :(
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> Some drives are boot images - this won't work if I want to be able to boot old systems.
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> stevej
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> Steve Jenkin, IT Systems and Design
> 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915)
> PO Box 38, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA
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> mailto:sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au http://members.tip.net.au/~sjenkin
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Tellico is a "collections manager", that I have not used for many years.

It is a KDE app and that might require a quantity of extra libs 
installed for other desktops.

Rod