Moving harddrives to other SATA ports

[michael2006]

Hi there,

Useded FreeNAS for a couple of months and now I notice that the new ZFS allow ZIL to dismount which I want to install a SSD for ZIL.

My original hard drive connection on a B75 board:
SATA0 (6Gbps) - HD0
SATA1 (3Gbps) - HD1
SATA2 (3Gbps) - HD2
SATA3 (3Gbps) - HD3
SATA4 (3Gbps) - Nil

Now I want to free SATA0 for SSD. If I move all hard drives to one number down of SATA ports, would FreeNAS recongize the zpool automatically? Or should I export the pool first before move?

Please advise, I am really worried that this would make all my data gone.

sidenote: How could I backup the zpool to external hard drive on the same machine?

Thank you.

 

[pirateghost]

you can completely switch them around, it doesnt matter.

 

[Yell]

just be sure to export and import OR import with -a