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Spanning JBOD - driver download

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N4SLI-A9 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. Single Logical Drive Disk 1: 40GB Disk 2: 80GB Disk 3: 40GB Disk 4: 120GB Features and Benefits - Uses: JBOD works best if you have odd sized drives and you want to combine them to make one big drive. - Benefits: JBOD provides the ability to combine odd size drives using all of the capacity of the drives. - Drawbacks: Decreases performance because of the difficulty in using drives concurrently. - Fault Tolerance: Yes. ※ For more detailed setup information, please refer to the Driver CD, or go to http://www.nvidia.com/page/pg_20011106217193.html to download NVIDIA nForce Tutorial Flash. 31

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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
-
Uses:
JBOD works best if you have odd sized drives and you want to
combine them to make one big drive.
-
Benefits:
JBOD provides the ability to combine odd size drives using all
of the capacity of the drives.
-
Drawbacks:
Decreases performance because of the difficulty in using
drives concurrently.
-
Fault Tolerance:
Yes.
For more detailed setup information, please refer to the Driver CD, or
go to
to download
NVIDIA nForce Tutorial Flash.
Disk 1: 40GB
Disk 2: 80GB
Disk 3: 40GB
Disk 4: 120GB
Single Logical
Drive