Very interesting and thanks for helping me with this. I do have both SAS cables plugged in. I double-checked the back of the SC220 and I'm definitely only using the "A" ports. The lsblk command you suggested is interesting. Here is the output for the drives with two device letters.
first set of device letters*
sde 8:64 0 931.5G 0 disk ST91000642SS
├─sde1 8:65 0 931.5G 0 part
└─sde9 8:73 0 8M 0 part
sdf 8:80 0 931.5G 0 disk ST91000642SS
├─sdf1 8:81 0 931.5G 0 part
└─sdf9 8:89 0 8M 0 part
sdg 8:96 0 838.4G 0 disk AL13SEB900
├─sdg1 8:97 0 838.4G 0 part
└─sdg9 8:105 0 8M 0 part
sdh 8:112 0 838.4G 0 disk AL13SEB900
├─sdh1 8:113 0 838.4G 0 part
└─sdh9 8:121 0 8M 0 part
sdi 8:128 0 931.5G 0 disk ST91000642SS
├─sdi1 8:129 0 931.5G 0 part
└─sdi9 8:137 0 8M 0 part
sdj 8:144 0 931.5G 0 disk ST91000642SS
├─sdj1 8:145 0 931.5G 0 part
└─sdj9 8:153 0 8M 0 part
sdk 8:160 0 931.5G 0 disk ST91000642SS
├─sdk1 8:161 0 931.5G 0 part
└─sdk9 8:169 0 8M 0 part
sdl 8:176 0 931.5G 0 disk ST91000642SS
├─sdl1 8:177 0 931.5G 0 part
└─sdl9 8:185 0 8M 0 part
sdm 8:192 0 838.4G 0 disk AL13SEB900
├─sdm1 8:193 0 838.4G 0 part
└─sdm9 8:201 0 8M 0 part
sdn 8:208 0 931.5G 0 disk ST91000642SS
├─sdn1 8:209 0 931.5G 0 part
└─sdn9 8:217 0 8M 0 part
***** second set of device letters*****
sdo 8:224 0 931.5G 0 disk ST91000642SS
├─sdo1 8:225 0 2G 0 part
└─sdo2 8:226 0 929.5G 0 part
sdp 8:240 0 931.5G 0 disk ST91000642SS
├─sdp1 8:241 0 2G 0 part
└─sdp2 8:242 0 929.5G 0 part
sdq 65:0 0 838.4G 0 disk AL13SEB900
├─sdq1 65:1 0 2G 0 part
└─sdq2 65:2 0 836.4G 0 part
sdr 65:16 0 838.4G 0 disk AL13SEB900
├─sdr1 65:17 0 2G 0 part
└─sdr2 65:18 0 836.4G 0 part
sds 65:32 0 931.5G 0 disk ST91000642SS
├─sds1 65:33 0 2G 0 part
└─sds2 65:34 0 929.5G 0 part
sdt 65:48 0 931.5G 0 disk ST91000642SS
├─sdt1 65:49 0 2G 0 part
└─sdt2 65:50 0 929.5G 0 part
sdu 65:64 0 931.5G 0 disk ST91000642SS
├─sdu1 65:65 0 2G 0 part
└─sdu2 65:66 0 929.5G 0 part
sdv 65:80 0 931.5G 0 disk ST91000642SS
├─sdv1 65:81 0 2G 0 part
└─sdv2 65:82 0 929.5G 0 part
sdw 65:96 0 838.4G 0 disk AL13SEB900
├─sdw1 65:97 0 2G 0 part
└─sdw2 65:98 0 836.4G 0 part
sdx 65:112 0 931.5G 0 disk ST91000642SS
├─sdx1 65:113 0 2G 0 part
└─sdx2 65:114 0 929.5G 0 part
The first set and the second set do show that they are assigned to the same device model, which makes sense since I can also see in the Gnome "Disks" app that each of these disks has two device letters (e.g. sde and sdo). However, the interesting thing I noticed in the output above is that the first set of device letters show the smaller partition as 8M in size and the second set of device letters show the smaller partition as 2G in size. I recall that when I first looked at the disks, before I started using zpool to experiment with creating pools, all of the drives in the SC220 had a 2G partition labeled "swap" (in the Gnome Disks app). After I created a zpool using devices sde-sdn, the devices in the zpool have a partition that is 8M in size. Now only the second set of devices (sdo-sdx) still have the 2G partition, which seems weird. Are there two partition tables?