RAID Central: Learn About JBOD (Just a Bunch of Drives)

JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks/Drives)

JBOD historically has had a couple different definitions, but recently has started to fall under one definition. JBOD is used in reference to a system that has each individual disk show up as an individual logical volume on the computer. For example a 4 bay unit populated with drives, will have 4 logical drives show up on the computer. You do not need matching drives.

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RAID 0 (Stripe)

Data is split into blocks over two or more drives at same time for high speed and large capacity.

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RAID 1 (Mirror)

Data is written at same time to two drives only for highest level of data safety and redundancy.

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RAID 10 (1+0)

Data is Striped (RAID 0) over two Mirrored sets (RAID 1) of drives for fast redundancy.

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RAID 5 (Stripe with Parity)

Data is Striped (RAID 0) while incorporating parity over three or more drives for the best combination of speed, capacity, and redundancy.

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JBOD

(Just a Bunch Of Disks/Drives)

Each disk shows up as an individual logical volume on the computer. A 4 bay unit populated with drives will have 4 logical drives show up on the computer.

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Span (N-RAID)

Combines capacity of two or more drives of varying size without any RAID data distribution scheme into one logical desktop volume.

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JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks/Drives)

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