how does jbod work?

[sup3rcarrx8]

Hi guys. I was wondering how this JBOD form of raid or whatever works. My new motherboard supports and I want to know how to do it. I'll probably be using 2 120gb ide drives in the IDE raid and then a JBOD RAID with a 160gb sata drive and then a 120gb sata drive (different brands) with the sata slots. Will this work? Thanks.

[fatguy]

yes, it should work. JBOD = Just a Bunch of Disks

[sup3rcarrx8]

Ok. Also can the type of drives be different? I have an idea that they have to be SATA to work. But i also have an IDE to SATA adapter. Will that possibly work? Thanks.

[darkknight187]

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/jbod.htm basically its going to allow you to see multiple hard drives as one large partition personally i would just leave them separate as there is 0 performance boost but has more of a chance of problems the chances of 1 drive out of 2 failing is better than the chance of 1 out of 1 drive failing. anyways whether or not you can mix pata and sata depends on the raid controller you have.

[sup3rcarrx8]

Cool thanks for the link! I'll see what i can do then. Thanks. :clap:

[RoadWarrior]

Ah, it's like appending drives in linux then. Actually, I'd consider it safer than RAID 0 since if one disk goes out, you've got half of your data complete still on one disk, if you can get it off. Whereas with RAID 0 you've got exactly half of ALL your data, which is useless.

[sup3rcarrx8]

Well. I'm also going with JBOD because of the fact that i don't need identical drives like the other RAID types do. Unless RAID has changed since i've last used it. (i'm on raid 0 with my drives right now)