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

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Can you tell if the backplane supports SGPIO? If it and your RAID card do, and things are wired up correctly, you can tell your RAID card to Identify the drive and it'll blink the LEDs. I just configured a Supermicro chassis to do this with an Adaptec controller.