How do you know which HDD is in slot X of your server? For example if one fails and you don’t want to unplug the wrong one.
Sadly my 24 Bay one doesn’t come with Smart Caddys or something fancy, only Power and Activity LED. Where on one occasion i guessed wrong -_- .
I’m tempted to start a spreadsheet but i hope their is something better than this or disk descriptions.
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The only thing I can think of is to put stickers.
@Koobey I use a label maker, i tag each drive with its brand, capacity and last 5 characters of its serial number
Last time I did this, i mapped out which plug corresponded to which device that linux saw then wrote a script that told me which hard drive was plugged into where and put it into a csv file.
This was for my disk testing tower, so when it told me “sdb” had finished badblocks, i would know which hdd sdb was.
I’ve started to utilize Netbox for all of that. Haven’t gotten to the drives yet, but all my networking connections, power, IP’s, etc. are documented in it.
