How does TrueNAS Scale order the disks within a pool? Considering a motherboard upgrade...

DavidYLau

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Hi, I have a TrueNAS-Scale system with a RAIDZ2 pool and I'm considering updating the motherboard/CPU for it.

How does TrueNAS-Scale know the correct "order" of drives within a pool (e.g. disk A has stripe 0, disk B has stripe 1, etc..)? Is it using the S/N of the drives? Or does it use the assigned device name from the O/S ? Or some combination?

The reason that I ask is whether I have to keep the same order of physical disks when plugging them into the SATA ports of the new motherboard. Or it doesn't matter?

I'm hoping to load a clean version of the O/S onto the boot drives and then upload a saved configuration file to restore my pools & datasets. This has worked in the past when I had to replace a flakey CPU.
 
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