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.
The only thing I can think of is to put stickers.
Not in a position to try this right now, but if your server is a Dell and you have the (enterprise, possibly) iDRAC, I think you can make a light on the drive caddy blink so you can identify it.
If all you have is the serial number of the disk that is failing … you’d better know what slot it’s in before you go pulling disks for replacement.
I tape a piece of paper with important info to the top of the server… Top outside, not the inside because I don’t want it to block any airflow.
Paper is cheap and doesn’t need batteries, and I don’t need to look for the info when I need it.
My server is a tower, so no hotswapping.
I know where my drive is when I see the right serial number on the label. Most of them I put little sticky notes with the identifier and drive number next to the sata ports so it’s easy to find.
