I was told a tool was a resilient approach to drive management.
It wasn’t, outside of a very specific set of circumstances.

Your analogy not only makes no sense but is exactly why I’m hostile about this. I’m not an expert at the specific limitations of a niche hard disk technology is, I must be a fucking moron or something, and ridicule is a clearly an appropriate reaction.

My idea of a useful tool for dealing with hard disks is not one that loses its shit when a hard disk is temporarily disconnected.
That is not a ridiculous assumption. If that’s an issue then that should be made abundantly clear.

I assigned drives based on serial number and passed them through to TrueNAS and it couldn’t handle that reliably. I do not think I was asking for the moon on a stick.

The USB interface is a temporary measure, I was going to move the disks to an internal setup after testing but if it can’t handle something that basic then like fuck am I trusting it with something like migrating from USB SATA to internal SATA.

If I need both disks to access mirrored data then it’s as useful as a chocolate teapot.