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D-Link FAQ => ShareCenter FAQs => Topic started by: JavaLawyer on October 28, 2011, 01:42:39 PM
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JBOD Defined
JBOD is short for "Just a Bunch of Disks". The disk controller treats each HDD as a stand-alone disk, therefore each drive is an independent logical drive. JBOD does not provide data redundancy. Concatenation or Spanning of disks is not one of the numbered RAID levels, but it is a popular method for combining multiple physical disk drives into a single virtual disk. It provides no data redundancy. As the name implies, disks are merely concatenated together, end to beginning, so they appear to be a single large disk.
Concatenation may be thought of as the reverse of partitioning. Whereas partitioning takes one physical drive and creates two or more logical drives, JBOD uses two or more physical drives to create one logical drive. In that it consists of an array of independent disks, it can be thought of as a distant relation to RAID. Concatenation is sometimes used to turn several odd-sized drives into one larger useful drive, which cannot be done with RAID 0. For example, JBOD could combine 3 GB, 15 GB, 5.5 GB, and 12 GB drives into a logical drive at 35.5 GB, which is often more useful than the individual drives separately.