Today the disks for my new ZFS NAS arrived, rejoice! 😍
Now I ask myself: If some day one of the drives fails, how am I supposed know which of the physical ones it is? My preliminary plan is to plug them into to disk container one by one, writing down the newly appearing blkids and labeling the corresponding drive. This is somewhat time consuming, so you folks have a better idea?
Cheers!
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You can switch to device ID for the drive identifier. That has several advantages and also makes it easier to identify the actual drive.
That’s precisely what I’m planning to do. Sadly, the disk ids are not printed on its outside. 😉