K
K
8
8
X
X
2
2
5
5
0
0
G
G
B
B
P
P
R
R
O
O
Spanning (JBOD):
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.
Features and Benefits
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Uses:
JBOD works best if you have odd sized drives and you
want to combine them to make one big drive.
¾
Benefits:
JBOD provides the ability to combine odd size drives
using all of the capacity of the drives.
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Drawbacks:
Decreases performance because of the difficulty in
using drives concurrently.
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Fault Tolerance:
No.
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