Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:

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?)

It's not striped, so you'll lose everything from the failed drive
forward - how fatal that is depends on which disk pops and how
resilient your filesystem is.


BTW, when I said "drives that span different physical drives", I meant that
I assumed that some large files may have some data on one drive, and the
rest on the next drive in the JBOD. I didn't mean that I thought the data
is striped through all the drives.

ss.