Before I do something stupid

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

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.