I need to reposition my drives in JBOD, will it screw up my pool?

[phdeoliveira]

I have my pool already setup and it is working perfectly fine.

I have my drives in a JBOD that are attached to a backplane, and they seem to be heating up quite a bit, so I was wanting to rearrange them in a honeycomb pattern since I have a bit of empty caddies. Will this screw up my data? or will it be able to rebuilt just fine since they will be technically be "different" disc numbers? 

[Shane]

You should be fine. DrivePool identifies poolpart drives by the data internal to each drive, not their position on a controller. Basically so long as Windows can find and read the drives (e.g. they show up in Disk Management as basic NTFS volumes), so too should DrivePool.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

What shane said.

Also, depending on the backplane, adding a fan (or changing the fan curve for that fan, or replacing it with a more powerful fan) may be a good idea.