Miss_Sissy Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Coming from QNAP and Thecus to Unraid, I find one important feature missing: A simple means of identifying drives by physical location in the chassis. I recommend that Unraid implement a feature where a user could help Unraid construct a graphic representation of drive location by providing the following: Horizontal or vertical drives? Number of rows? Number of columns? Then provide a means for the user to map controllers to physical disk locations (perhaps SCSI device numbers if those don't change). Examples: Vertical drive orientation, 1 row, 5 columns Horizontal drive orientation, 6 rows, 4 columns Horizontal drive orientation, 5 rows, 1 column. I am not suggesting that the Unraid GUI provide a photorealistic representation, just line drawings that repeat horizontal and vertical rectangles to represent the relative locations of drives, with red/green indicators to show drives being bad/good. Rather than having to shut down the Unraid server and pull the drives out one at a time searching for a serial number, the user could be presented with an image that showed them precisely which drive had failed. I know that this would not address every possible configuration, and that various customers have mixed vertical and horizontal orientation drives, sometimes in multiple chassis. But it would help a very large percentage of Unraid customers. Note: I recognize that there are ways to identify which drives are in which physical locations, including high-tech solutions utilizing Post-Its, label makers, sketches, etc. This is a feature request for those who find those methods lacking. Quote Link to comment
Miss_Sissy Posted December 2, 2020 Author Share Posted December 2, 2020 Fantastic! I searched all through the menus and didn't see anything. It never occurred to me that it would be a plugin (I only brought up Unraid a day ago). Quote Link to comment
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