Hey guys - I have 1 X 2TB and 2 X 1TB disks which are taking up room in my case. I was looking at the Synology DiskStation DS411j and it appears to support JBOD. Does that mean that I could just load my existing disks in and make the data that is already on these disks accessible via the LAN and WAN?
JBOD requires disk wipe?
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You'd have to backup the data and restore, the disks would be wiped in the process of setting up the disk volume.
Think of the potential for file/folder clashes if you just mashed together disks with existing data on them.
You'd still have the risk of RAID0 'all eggs in one basket', but where RAID0 offers performance, JBOD offers variable sizes and quantities of disks (to their fullest capacity). At a high level there's not much else to separate them.
Think of the potential for file/folder clashes if you just mashed together disks with existing data on them.
You'd still have the risk of RAID0 'all eggs in one basket', but where RAID0 offers performance, JBOD offers variable sizes and quantities of disks (to their fullest capacity). At a high level there's not much else to separate them.
Yes, and you may be able to do it gradually too, so long as the NAS is capable of allowing volume expansion by adding more disks to the JBOD as you go (some are, and it's typically allowed, but cheaper NAS devices may not have the configuration support to do it).
So you'd consolidate some data to empty up a disk or two, start the JBOD off with that, then move data across from the non-JBOD drives to the volume, and once they're empty, expand the volume by adding these newly empty ones to it.
A bit of a lark, but might be managable.
So you'd consolidate some data to empty up a disk or two, start the JBOD off with that, then move data across from the non-JBOD drives to the volume, and once they're empty, expand the volume by adding these newly empty ones to it.
A bit of a lark, but might be managable.