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Spanning (JBOD), How JBOD Works, Summary of Features and Benefits
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CHAPTER 1 About NVIDIA RAID Spanning (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 1.4 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: Decreases performance because of the difficulty in using drives concurrently. • Uses: JBOD works best if you have odd sized drives and you want to combine them to make one big drive. • Fault Tolerance: No NVIDIA Corporation 7
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About NVIDIA RAID
Spanning (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 1.4
JBOD Array Diagram
Summary of Features and Benefits
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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.
•
Uses:
JBOD works best if you have odd sized drives and you want to combine them to
make one big drive.
•
Fault Tolerance:
No