Before I do something stupid

TrueNAS General
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Question up front. Will I get in trouble if I reconnect spinning rust to different SATA ports?

Situation: I have finally acquired my first rack storage solution for my home lab (crowd overwhelming says “awwwwwww, that’s so cute”) and I am planning on moving my NAS box from a vertical PC fat box to a 4U rack mounted fat box. My new 4U box will hold 2x four bay drive cages (3.5" disks) for a total of 8x disks. I will be replacing a PCI SATA card adding more SATA ports to accommodate the additional disks (when I buy them).

After I get it all physically installed, am I going to have problems when the drives are connected to different SATA ports?

My hardware is probably 10 years old. I bought the components off FB Marketplace and TN is running like a champ! Thanks for making a great OS!

TrueNAS-SCALE-23.10.2
ThinkCentre M83 Motherboard
Intel Core i5-4570 @ 3.2Ghz 4 core
CPU speed 3.4Gz
RAM: 16GB @ 1333 Mhz

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ZFS does not care which SATA ports the drives are connected to so long as the system can see them all you should be able to just import the pool.

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Some cheap SATA host controllers have proven to be not overly reliable.

The standard recommendation for TrueNAS is something like this:

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I might have to look into that. I already have the SATA card so we will see what happens.