8MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 3.1
CHAPTER 1
About NVIDIA RAID
JBODHow JBOD Works
JBOD stands for “J ust a Bunch of Dis ks”. Each drive i s accessed as if it were on a standa rd
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