Search a Drive You Haven't Even Plugged In

The actual question is rarely "search this drive" — it's "which of my dozen drives has that photo from Goa," and the drive in question is usually sitting unplugged in a drawer. Because every archive's catalog is mirrored locally the moment it's first scanned, MediaVault can answer that question without you reconnecting anything first.

One search, every archive you own

A single search runs across every drive MediaVault has ever cataloged, connected or not — filename, place, device, and extension are all searchable, and a small rules layer understands date-and-keyword phrasing like "2022 kashmir trip" or "may 2022 goa" without needing an actual AI model to parse it.

Told exactly what you need to do next

Results from a drive that isn't currently connected are clearly flagged "drive required," so you know immediately which physical disk to go dig out instead of wondering why a file you can see isn't opening.

It turns "I think it's on one of these drives somewhere" into a specific answer — this file, on that drive — before you've plugged in a single cable.