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JBOD is "Just a Bunch of Drives" and is a non-RAID drive architecture in that it provides no redundancy across the disks.

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Make two disks appear as one big share on LAN

I bought 2 x 2TB disks for a NAS server, (linux debian). I want to make both drives appear as one big 4TB disk on the LAN. This can be done with software RAID (JBOD) or LVM I suppose. There are other options?. One big plus would be knowing what…
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If one disk in a JBOD group fails, are files on other disks inaccessible?

If I use a dual-disk enclosure that employs JBOD, would I be able to at least access and use a second disk in the event that the other fails or otherwise becomes inaccessible?
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Create JBOD or RAID 0 on a Windows Drive

Is it possible to create a JBOD or RAID 0 using an empty drive, and a drive that contains windows? I don't have a very computer literate family, and teaching them to put their stuff on the D: rather than C: is too much of a concept for them to…
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Linux - Advanced automounting via /etc/fstab file

I have a simple server with 6 hard disk drives (all SATA) inside of it. They are in a simple JBOD (just a bunch of disks) mode, so Linux just shows the following devices (assume each one has a single ext2…
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Can I use s SAS-expander without a dedicated hardware RAID Card?

I'm trying to expand my ZFS raid setup and I have used up all the available Sata-ports on my motherboard. I have read about SAS Expanders online and I think i have understood what they do. But one detail seems to be skipped everywhere I looked. I…
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Path to USB device changes spontaneously at runtime

I am running a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian (a Linux based on Debian Wheezy) as a NAS (Network Attached Storage) with an USB hard drive attached as the only USB device. The issue I am confronted with is that the external USB hard drive is at /dev/sda…
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Do hard drives have to be mounted somewhere?

I'm creating a cheap JBOD box with ~7 IDE hard drives. However when you take into account 3 existing drives + 2 CD drives that are installed as well, I am out of mounting places inside the server. Will I adversely affect or harm the drives if I just…
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external drive enclosure -> software RAID 5?

I have two older PCs on my LAN posing as 'servers'; one running FreeNAS off a USB stick using three 500GB HDDs in a ZFS RAID-Z pool serving as storage for the LAN and one running Debian Lenny with an 80GB drive used as a general purpose 'tinker' box…
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How will TrueCrypt work out on JBOD?

I'm thinking of setting up a file server with JBOD (just a bunch of disks). Is it possible to encrypt the entire array of concatenated disks with TrueCrypt and what happens when I need to replace/upgrade an individual drive?
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How to combine a bunch of different sized SSDs into one volume in Windows?

I have six old SATA ssd of different sizes and brands (100 to 512 GB) collecting dust in a drawer. I would like to put them into my PC as one large JBOD volume, and use this for installing Steam games. Speed is not important. Data redundancy is not…
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Sata 2 vs Cacheless SAS6G JBOD Performance

I have some "old" servers here, using Asus P9D-MH/SAS/10G-DUAL https://www.asus.com/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/P9DMHSAS10GDUAL/ This board comes with a SAS 6Gbps controller, an LSI SAS2308 which seems to be cacheless and an Intel Sata Chipset…
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ZFS as JBOD with removable drives?

Is it possible to set up a ZFS pool such that it looks something like JBOD but drives are removable from that pool? I have read that, with the usual ZFS configurations, this isn't possible. It seems to me that, if the used space is small enough, it…
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Will the Shuttle Omninas KD20 wipe my data during initial setup?

I have a new KD20 Omninas from Shuttle, and two hard drives full of pre-existing data I would like to share using it. I was planning on selecting the JBOD (just a bunch of disks) RAID mode, and at first assumed that there would be no way they…
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Dell Studio Slim 540s JBOD RAID

I'm working on a Dell Studio 540s that has dual 750GB drives in what appears to be a JBOD configuration. The computer reports "Missing operating system" at boot. The BIOS appeared to have been wiped/reset as the clock was set to 2007 and there…
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How can I save my JBOD "files" when moving from Windows Home Server to Windows Server Essentials 2012

I had a Windows Home Server (not 2011) that finally up and died on me. Instead of going through the effort of re-installing an outdated OS, I decided to install Windows Server Essentials 2012, since that's supposed to be the new offering in this…
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