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I am attracted by the apparent simplicity of JBOD, but I am also put off by the apparent difficulty of then setting up network shares for large collections with JBOD: are there any pros/cons I am not seeing, especially in terms of the network sharing folder thing? So anyway I guess what I am asking is whether there is a strong reason to consider taking apart my "mirror" setup and going for something less protective such as JBOD. Are any of these worth seriously considering? With the parity, I have heard it doesn't have great performance (again in particular SS) and might not be good for a lot of data either. I am concerned though with the "all for one" nature of the RAID-0 and would be relatively less at ease than with a simple JBOD. Other ways to decrease my waste I guess would be moving to a less redundant setup such as a RAID-0 or RAID-5 (simple or parity storage spaces, I know most of you hate it but for me I would probably use it anyway). Would I have to then mount those drives as NTFS folders within some "Videos" folder on the C: drive, and split up the collection in some way like "Videos/Home Videos" points to one drive and "Videos/TV Shows" points to the other? What if one of these gets too large and I would have to merge the folders would I be able to store half of "Videos/TV Shows" on one drive and half on the other, or would I have to do something like "Videos/TV Shows A-L" and "Videos/TV Shows M-Z" on the other to keep the folders isolated? If anyone has knowledge on how that would work that would be great.Ģ. This isn't the case currently, but say one of my collections goes over 4TB, like "Videos" or something, and I needed to split it up among multiple disks. One concern though is setting up the network share. I also appreciate the simplicity of having no abstraction of the drives. I know it has different uses but here by JBOD I mean physically connecting the drives with no abstraction as D, E, F. JBOD is appealing because if a disk breaks, I don't lose all the data, just what was on that disk.
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While I appreciate the extra safety net that the mirror gives me (in case cold backup is corrupted or something), I keep thinking that I am sort of wasting potential room by having this mirror setup in addition to the offline backup, and I should just have the offline one, so I am trying to consider other options.ġ. If a drive breaks, I don't mind spending the time restoring the backup before I can access the data again. The thing about me and RAID is that unlike most enterprise users, I don't really have a problem with the "drive goes down and server is inaccessible" scenario.
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Unlike most I don't do client computer backups, only files themselves, which don't change too often so I don't really need to update the backup too frequently. I update this maybe every few weeks or so, and as needed. I always want to keep a cold copy of the data as a backup on external drives. Those folders are then designated as separate network shares to show up as //SERVER/Videos or whatever. I currently use Storage Spaces in mirror mode, and have the entire ~9TB volume as one drive letter that on it has folders like you would expect "Videos" "Music" "Recorded TV" etc.
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RAID50 etc.), JBOD (must appear as physical or logical disks on your computer to work) - Includes RAID reconstruction for broken RAID disks - Supports all kind of file systems: FAT12/16/32 (mainly used on flash cards, hard disks etc.) exFAT (mainly used on flash cards) NTFS (used on PC hard drives) CDFS/ISO9660 (used on optical media) HFS+ (used on Mac hard drives) ext2/3/4, ReiserFS, JFS (mainly used on Linux systems) RAW (means it recovers without any file system by scanning for footprints of your lost files) VMDK (VMWare flat or sparse virtual disk image files, incl.I am currently working on a server with a total of currently 5 x 4TB drives but room for expansion in the future. hard drives (including SSD) -RAID drives: RAID0, RAID5 and combinations (e.g. (must be appear as a volume or disk on your computer to work) - Optical media like CD, DVD etc. Digital cameras, media players, phones etc. Supports all kind of media: flash media like USB thumb disks, SD cards etc.
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