Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:

Also,
JBOD (also "not a RAID", Just a Bunch of Disks): N disks of any sizes,
gives the combined sum of diskspace as one virtual disk with no
safety.


I've never seen the point of JBOD. Do people actually use it? If one drive
fails, you lose everything (without having to go through a recovery
process - and what happens to files that span different physical drives?),
and there is no advantage as far as I can see. It would be much better to
extend a drive using volume mount points or symbolic links, no?

ss.