Hard drive inventory software

[TerraNova]

How do you guys catalogue hard drive inventory? I was thinking to bar code all my stock inventory so when i need them i can easily find it.
Does anyone know a good hard drive inventory software that support bar coding, based on model, capacities, sizes 2.5" hdd, 3.5" hdd, firmware, other hdd codes etc.

Thank's for any feedback

[mediaman]

great question! I was considering a program called "excel" but the bar coding would be great. I think it should be tied in to case management in general. Atola has case management, but does not have bar-code integration (yet)

[dobrevjetser]

Is the Atola Case management software for sale ?

Dobre

[mediaman]

its integrated to Insight, when you plug a disk in, on exiting again it asks if you want to assign a case number, on re-connecting it shows the disks history. The bar code idea would be great (HINT HINT!!!) to close the whole CM loop, combined with an inventory db.

[hhddrec]

great question! I was considering a program called "excel" but the bar coding would be great. I think it should be tied in to case management in general. Atola has case management, but does not have bar-code integration (yet)

What it means "but does not have bar-code integration"

You can read any bar-code and save it as ASCI text,....

[mediaman]

i mean one database connected to case management and inventory, would have to generate sticky labels.

If i am forced to read ascii, copy paste the string into something and then process I may as well stick with the sticky labels that I'm using now, or build my own integration (Atola uses MS SQL Express)

[hhddrec]

Not apear dificult to make an aplication that can read data form any database and make sticky labels with bar-code, text, and more.

[Daisy Woo]

Bar coding is easy, just buy one, plug it in, point to the text field you want filled in and donk. Your done. Every software written has bar code integration as long as it accepts keyboard input. BC scanners are basically keyboards ! They scan the bar code, convert it to ASCII (or other text) and either send it down the Keyboard PS/2 connector with a splitter (ususally comes with the scanner) or through USB on USB Scanners. We've been using BC Scanners for years, and they are so simple, you wouldn't beleive it.

Where it gets tricky is printing, you will need a barcode font that works in your application. But once you have this, set the fields to the correct font, then off your go.