Well both servers have been running reliably for 8+ years. A couple of months ago my home of 37 years went up in smoke. Servers were not burned but smoked. Server 1 freezes after ipmi and no offer to get into the bios. A new board has been ordered.
Server 2 a supermicro x11 gets all the way to the OS and then redundantly errors on ada5. I made and booted a 24.4 flash drive and started an installation when asked where to install I can see the ssd (13.x core) and the six drives. 5 drives still bear the pool name, the sixth does not.
My question is how can I identify the bad drive (serial number) outside of the GUI?
Thanks
Well firstly I’m really sorry to hear this.
If you run smartctl -a /dev/ada5 that will output lots of info including the drives serial number. Write it down and then shutdown the machine and find the drive. Remove it and replace it with a new one. Then within the UI follow the disk replacement procedure.
Can you remember what your pool configuration was i.e Z1 or Z2 etc?
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Thanks Johnny. If loosing your home and belongings wasn’t bad enough, my big dog and I had to go to a hotel. Next morning I needed to take him for a walk and he tripped going down some stairs taking me with him. I wound up with a concussion, a broken hip, and an ambulance ride to shortly get my hip replaced. Tough going for someone 71. Saving my computers would be good news.
On the upside the backup drives in my two bay Synology survived and replacing the box itself got all my backed up data back.
Enough about my troubles! If I remember correctly there was an option on the 24.4 boot flash for a shell. If so should I use it, or build a 13.x disk to pursue the shell command. Thanks to you and the community for giving me some hope. 
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Wow what a nightmare. However I’m in huge admiration of your tech skills at 71 and only hope I’m anywhere near you at that age.
Best of luck my friend.
