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About NVIDIA® MediaShield™
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 1.5 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: No additional fault tolerance or performance relative to individual disks.
• Uses: JBOD works best if you have odd sized drives and you want to combine them to
make one big drive.
• Fault Tolerance: No