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Some tells that JBOD and SPAN is the same. Other says that JBOD is not RAID. JBOD will every disk have a volume and SPAN will all disks be like one big disk. 80.203.188.154 15:43, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Moreover, we have this clause:
Is there any proof that it's incorrect usage of term? I tend to think that basically, there are no well-understood term for that thing. JBOD, Spanning, concatenation, linear and appending can all mean the same thing or different things, depending on who uses it. May be we shoudl reflect that such a mess exists, instead of trying to confuse our reader? -- GreyCat 05:08, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
I've never seen this usage of JBOD before. JBOD is the *absence* of RAID of any form, you are just getting direct access to a bunch of disks. Vendors like Adaptec's, Sun's and SuperMicro's usage of the term matches this. It seems to me the notion that JBOD is concatenated RAID-0 is a misunderstanding who has spread out from ordinary PC users. I'd also like to express my skeptisism about calling "linear mode" incorrect. It may be unusual terminology, but I don't see what's wrong with it. FWIW, Solaris Volume Manager avoids the issue and doesn't use the RAID word for "concatentations" and "stripes". Kjetilho 13:31, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I am no expert, but I believe the concatenation referred to here, which is used to create a single logical disk out of multiple physical disks is more commonly called "BIG". I assume this is because it is just one big drive and there needs to be a way to distinguish it from "JBOD". Whereas "JBOD" is literally "Just a Bunch Of Disks", a interface approach which causes the physical drives to appear as a bunch of different disks. I have been looking to purchase a dual bay SATA enclosure and this appears to be most common terminology used, with some controllers supporting both modes. Clarifying these two non-RAID operational modes on the wiki would be great. Ritecite ( talk) 06:06, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
I vote for JBOD as one baseline framework for RAID creation. Note, JBOD is a HW device for a bunch of disks or drives. It has different form factor and dozens of disk drives in the enclosure like 2U25 or 3U15 JBOD. However, RAID is the term for data storage technology which can be applicable on multi drives cases. So JBOD is one regular platform to implement RAID function based on HW and/or SW support. That's it. So I strongly suggest to add JBOD term back here or create a single page for JBOD. Thanks:-)
In other words, JBOD is a physical device but RAID is logical and a abstract for multi-disks.
-- SamSong2008 ( talk) 02:25, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
At SPAN 'Implementations' it is mentioned that single drive failure leaves other drives unreadable in OSX. This is not mentioned for Linux LVM, which confuses the reader into thinking in LVM the leftover disks are still readable. I think this is also false, though. But not entirely sure. Redsandro ( talk) 13:02, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
After doing some research, the terms "BIG" and "SPAN" are almost never used with regard to a non-RAID drive configuration. I'm having a very hard time believing that these terms act actually true and not something that someone invented. Having a degree in Computer Science and as a person semi-knowledgeable of the subject, I'm disputing the validity of these points because there are zero cited sources with this information. It is false and should be removed immediately. Jrdoane ( talk) 8:48, 18, December 2012 (UTC)
I propose that Non-RAID drive architectures be merged into RAID in the Non-RAID drive architectures section. The standalone article is mostly uncited and somewhat redundant. While a little longer than a stub, it's too short (especially once uncited material is removed) to justify an independent article for which readers of RAID must switch pages to see basic details. – voidxor ( talk | contrib) 05:39, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
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Some tells that JBOD and SPAN is the same. Other says that JBOD is not RAID. JBOD will every disk have a volume and SPAN will all disks be like one big disk. 80.203.188.154 15:43, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Moreover, we have this clause:
Is there any proof that it's incorrect usage of term? I tend to think that basically, there are no well-understood term for that thing. JBOD, Spanning, concatenation, linear and appending can all mean the same thing or different things, depending on who uses it. May be we shoudl reflect that such a mess exists, instead of trying to confuse our reader? -- GreyCat 05:08, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
I've never seen this usage of JBOD before. JBOD is the *absence* of RAID of any form, you are just getting direct access to a bunch of disks. Vendors like Adaptec's, Sun's and SuperMicro's usage of the term matches this. It seems to me the notion that JBOD is concatenated RAID-0 is a misunderstanding who has spread out from ordinary PC users. I'd also like to express my skeptisism about calling "linear mode" incorrect. It may be unusual terminology, but I don't see what's wrong with it. FWIW, Solaris Volume Manager avoids the issue and doesn't use the RAID word for "concatentations" and "stripes". Kjetilho 13:31, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I am no expert, but I believe the concatenation referred to here, which is used to create a single logical disk out of multiple physical disks is more commonly called "BIG". I assume this is because it is just one big drive and there needs to be a way to distinguish it from "JBOD". Whereas "JBOD" is literally "Just a Bunch Of Disks", a interface approach which causes the physical drives to appear as a bunch of different disks. I have been looking to purchase a dual bay SATA enclosure and this appears to be most common terminology used, with some controllers supporting both modes. Clarifying these two non-RAID operational modes on the wiki would be great. Ritecite ( talk) 06:06, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
I vote for JBOD as one baseline framework for RAID creation. Note, JBOD is a HW device for a bunch of disks or drives. It has different form factor and dozens of disk drives in the enclosure like 2U25 or 3U15 JBOD. However, RAID is the term for data storage technology which can be applicable on multi drives cases. So JBOD is one regular platform to implement RAID function based on HW and/or SW support. That's it. So I strongly suggest to add JBOD term back here or create a single page for JBOD. Thanks:-)
In other words, JBOD is a physical device but RAID is logical and a abstract for multi-disks.
-- SamSong2008 ( talk) 02:25, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
At SPAN 'Implementations' it is mentioned that single drive failure leaves other drives unreadable in OSX. This is not mentioned for Linux LVM, which confuses the reader into thinking in LVM the leftover disks are still readable. I think this is also false, though. But not entirely sure. Redsandro ( talk) 13:02, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
After doing some research, the terms "BIG" and "SPAN" are almost never used with regard to a non-RAID drive configuration. I'm having a very hard time believing that these terms act actually true and not something that someone invented. Having a degree in Computer Science and as a person semi-knowledgeable of the subject, I'm disputing the validity of these points because there are zero cited sources with this information. It is false and should be removed immediately. Jrdoane ( talk) 8:48, 18, December 2012 (UTC)
I propose that Non-RAID drive architectures be merged into RAID in the Non-RAID drive architectures section. The standalone article is mostly uncited and somewhat redundant. While a little longer than a stub, it's too short (especially once uncited material is removed) to justify an independent article for which readers of RAID must switch pages to see basic details. – voidxor ( talk | contrib) 05:39, 11 February 2013 (UTC)