How do you keep track of where each drive is plugged in ? (alien.top)

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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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[-] SirLagz@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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