Show WWN in disk info

Feature Requests
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Problem/Justification
The current Storage → Disks view lacks the display of World Wide Names (WWNs). Incorporating WWN information would significantly aid in identifying specific drives, particularly in scenarios involving disk errors and subsequent replacements.

Impact
This enhancement is purely additive; no existing functionality within TrueNAS will be removed or altered. The proposal involves supplementing the current disk identification information with the corresponding WWN.

User Story
Consider a scenario where an alert indicates an issue with “/dev/sdj”. In environments with multiple hard drives (e.g., 14 HDDs in my setup) often of the same make and model, identifying the physical drive corresponding to “/dev/sdj” can be challenging.

Currently, to facilitate identification, I manually label the drives with a portion of their WWN using a sticker printer.

While the WWN associated with “/dev/sdj” can be determined via the command-line interface, integrating this information directly into the Storage → Disks view would greatly improve the user experience and streamline drive identification.

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You can do that now, storage -> View Disks -> Edit -> Description and it works. In my next version of Multi-Report I have added this capability and it shows up on every report, and a few other things of course dealing with SMART testing. It will be released soon. Just giving you another option.

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Thanks, Joe, that’s a helpful tip!

For the Multi-Report part, I need to take a look on that. Sounds interesting.