JBOD is "Just a Bunch of Drives" and is a non-RAID drive architecture in that it provides no redundancy across the disks.
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If one disk in a JBOD group fails, are files on other disks inaccessible?
If I use a dual-disk enclosure that employs JBOD, would I be able to at least access and use a second disk in the event that the other fails or otherwise becomes inaccessible?
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Make two disks appear as one big share on LAN
I bought 2 x 2TB disks for a NAS server, (linux debian). I want to make both drives appear as one big 4TB disk on the LAN. This can be done with software RAID (JBOD) or LVM I suppose.
There are other ...
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How can I save my JBOD “files” when moving from Windows Home Server to Windows Server Essentials 2012
I had a Windows Home Server (not 2011) that finally up and died on me. Instead of going through the effort of re-installing an outdated OS, I decided to install Windows Server Essentials 2012, since ...
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How to recover deleted files on Iomega NAS ix2-200 CloudEdition - Linux based system with Raid1 and JBOD
I deleted some video files by mistake on my Iomega NAS ix2-200 StorCenter Cloud Edition. Linux based system with Raid1 and JBOD
I stopped writing any action on the StorCenter.
How can I recover these ...
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stand alone hdd copy station (not clone) [closed]
I am looking for an external stand alone copy station and would like to get some advice.
I want some device, where I can plug bare SATA hard drives and then press a button to copy everything from disk ...
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Linux - Advanced automounting via /etc/fstab file
I have a simple server with 6 hard disk drives (all SATA) inside of it. They are in a simple JBOD (just a bunch of disks) mode, so Linux just shows the following devices (assume each one has a single ...
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JBOD enclosure compatibility [closed]
after asking a stupid question about RAID i did a bit more research and would like to know if this enclosure set as JBOD would be compatible with my wii,pc,laptop, and generic media player?
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Do hard drives have to be mounted somewhere?
I'm creating a cheap JBOD box with ~7 IDE hard drives. However when you take into account 3 existing drives + 2 CD drives that are installed as well, I am out of mounting places inside the server.
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external drive enclosure -> software RAID 5?
I have two older PCs on my LAN posing as 'servers'; one running FreeNAS off a USB stick using three 500GB HDDs in a ZFS RAID-Z pool serving as storage for the LAN and one running Debian Lenny with an ...
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RAID recovery - planning for the worst
I've considered getting a commercial RAID NAS, e.g. QNAP or Synology but hesitate because I want to be absolutely confident regarding disaster recovery. I'd prefer not to be at the mercy of the ...
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How to convert WinXP + Apps on RAID0 to use just one of the two RAID disks?
I have two 150GB SATA drives in hardware RAID 0, on which I have my C: (Win XP) and D: (installed apps).
I'm migrating to Windows 7, but I want to keep my XP system until I've got it all running ...
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Software RAID for several HDs which retains files on each HD
Is there some kind of software/driver that would enable me to create one big volume out of several hard disks but retain the file structure on each HD?
This would be in case where one hard disk ...
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Create JBOD or RAID 0 on a Windows Drive
Is it possible to create a JBOD or RAID 0 using an empty drive, and a drive that contains windows? I don't have a very computer literate family, and teaching them to put their stuff on the D: rather ...
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How will TrueCrypt work out on JBOD?
I'm thinking of setting up a file server with JBOD (just a bunch of disks). Is it possible to encrypt the entire array of concatenated disks with TrueCrypt and what happens when I need to ...
