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.

  • Cygnusaurus@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    All my drives came with a sticker from WD with the serial number on the back of each drive. I am able to open my hot swap bays just enough to the number without disconnecting the drives.

    Once my server was up and running I took a snapshot of all of the drives, shut off the server, and rearranged them from top to bottom following the order on the list. So disk 1 is in slot 1 and so on.