Hi all

I've had a power problem that has destroyed one of my 500GB drives. UnRAID says it missing. I've bought a replacement 2TB drive and need some help identifying exactly which drive among the other 5 I have in the machine is the faulty one. Is there any record kept as to which SATA port device the old drive was attached to so I can work backwards from the motherboard SATA  port follow the cable and spot the faulty drive. The case setup is pretty tight and I don't want to have to pull out that many drives to get to the right one. I have the drive identifier just not which port it was connected to.

 

Cheers

Short answer - no. You can access each of the drives that are working and watch for drive lights (not sure what you have in this regard).

 

You really should have hot-swap cages (I like the CSE-M35T-1B). They you would not fear removing each drive and looking at its front sticker (powered off of course). Running as you are is just asking for cabling trouble now and down the line.

You might try the "screwdriver stethoscope" method to try to determine which drives are spinning.