Nvidia ST380023AS User Manual download pdf (Page 10)

8 MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 3.1

HAPTER 1

About NVIDIA RAID

JBOD

How JBOD Works

JBOD stands for “Just a Bunch of Disks”. Each drive is accessed as if it were on a standard

SCSI host bus adapter. This is useful when a single drive configuration is needed, but it

offers no speed improvement or fault tolerance.

Figure 1.5

JBOD Array Diagram

Summary of Features and Benefits

• Benefits: JBOD provides the ability to combine odd size drives using all of the capacity

of the drives.

• Drawbacks: No additional fault tolerance or performance relative to individual disks.

• Uses: JBOD works best if you have odd sized drives and you want to combine them to

make one big drive.

• Fault Tolerance: No

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