Questions about JBOD

[korgoth]

does jbod have to be setup with hardware or can you do it in the bios software too.

i have xp pro, and 3 external usb hard drives, that i wanted to jbod. do i need to freshly format them or could i just jbod them and keep all the existing data?

how do i even set up a jbod

 

[Cromewell]

I think you may have been mislead (accidently) as to what JBOD is. It means "Just a Bunch Of Disks," nothing more. If you plug in a bunch of disks it's JBOD unless you have them set up as a RAID.

I think in your other thread you were trying to make all your disks act as 1? That can be done 2 ways, with RAID (hardware or software) or by using windows to span a partition across multiple disks. You need to set the disks as dynamic then create a spanned partition. This requires formatting the drives so any data on them will be lost.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...4077-45c7-a24c-894df9102b6a1033.mspx?mfr=true

 

[SirKenin]

JBOD combines a bunch of disks of any size into one drive letter. Onboard RAID cards often support the JBOD configuration.

 

[korgoth]

yeah i did read how people had conflicting views of what jbod really did.

But thanks, i guess the answer is that there is no software option for a jbod, only on raid hardware can you select the jbod option.