On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:10 AM, Alex Dean wrote:
> Thanks for everyones' input. As usual, this is a great place to get
> technical advice. A few quick replies...
>
>> Wouldn't JBOD end up setting everything up as a >1300Gb single unit?
>
> Hm. I'm afraid I may have misunderstood the term. I thought 'just
> a bunch of disks' meant I'd be able to use the 2 disks separately,
> like they'd be separate logical devices, and a client could mount 1
> or the other independently. Reading further, it seems that's not
> correct. Crud. Looks like JBOD is more like RAID 0 w/o the
> striping. I guess that's what I get for inferring too much from an
> acronym. :)
>
> So, in this single enclosure, how do I keep the 2 separate? Backups
> on the big drive, and extra primary storage on the smaller one?
> Hopefully there will be some options in the enclosure's OS that will
> allow that kind of setup. Otherwise I'll probably be returning it.
I looked again and found this in the product description :
"Standard mode creates two separately accessible hard drives."
http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=666
So I think I'm set. Saved from the idiocy I didn't know I had. (Is
there any other kind?) :)
alex
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