At present the motherboard on my Windows Home Server has 8 SATA ports and I have 6 identical 1-terabyte drives connected to it. I want to install an ATTO H6F0 controller which supports 16 SATA drives and by purchasing two 8-bay 2U rack mount enclosures, I can connect both enclosures to the ATTO with four 1m External MiniSAS Cable SFF-8088 to SFF-8088 cables. My question is wondering of the following will work.
1) Shut down the server, install the Atto card, bring the server back up and install the drivers
2) Shut down the server again connect the first 8-bay enclosure
3) leave the 1-Terabute boot drive in the server but move the other 5 drives to the 8-bay
4) Boot the server and WHS finds the drives with no issues
5) Update the disk manager ad in with the new locations of the drives
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