Newby trying to connect 4 drives ana a 1tb SSD drive

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I have an old WD 4 Bay Nas I plan on putting the drives into a Jonsbo N2 case. I bought a 6 sata capable n1505 mb . I want to use 4 bays with my WD drives 5th bay empty for future and connect my SSD to sata6. I could just buy a seperate

SATA to USB Adapter Cable, USB 3.0 to 2.5 inch SATA III Adapter, HDD/SSD to USB, Hard Drive Adapter, UASP Supported, Compatible with MacBook, PC, Laptop - USB to SATA Adapter (EC-SSHD)

If that would be better than using the sata6 port
I’m looking for advice as this is my first NAS build and I’m not familiar with trueNAS configuration restrictions.

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My main use will be to store photos and docs currently on the cloud to my own Nas. I am not a power user but do love learning new technology and hope to expand my knowledge and use of this build after I get it setup.

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Use the 6th SATA port rather than a USB adapter.

Its probably OK to use a USB-SATA adapter for the boot disk - but why take the risk?