[BlizzardUK]

I am looking to JBOD a few HDDs so they show up as one. Do you know if the drives will need formatting first, or does it differ from a RAID array ? Is JBOD still classed as RAID ?

[Maxatoria]

if its onboard JBOD then more than likely it'll need to format the drives so it'd be backup data/create jbod/restore data

but you could try a dynamic volume in windows http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...amic-disk.html

[psionic]

I've personally never seen much of a point to JBOD. It's just spanning and there is no redundancy. Also high power requirements and extra heat and noise just to provide a single logical volume. You also have to consider what happens when one of those drives inevitably fails.

[Maxatoria]

its alright if you understand the risks that a disk failure will mean you have lost all your data and sometimes people don't care since its just a large dump of data that needs sorting/editing like HD video and could just pull the data back from the camera

[BlizzardUK]

Originally Posted by Maxatoria

its alright if you understand the risks that a disk failure will mean you have lost all your data and sometimes people don't care since its just a large dump of data that needs sorting/editing like HD video and could just pull the data back from the camera

Do you know if one drive fails whether all would have lost data, or would the rest of the drives be ok ?

[Maxatoria]

given theres no parity/mirror or any other recovery data spread out across the drives so when the drive dies it dies so consider it for data you can recover via other means