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JBOD vs. RAID 0 with non-identical disks
I have a 160GB and a 120GB hard drive in which I want to make one
GIANT drive and then partition into 4 equal partitions reguardless of which physical disk the partition has to reside on. Essentially creating 4 70GB partitions. When you use RAID 0 with non-identical disks, can you use the wasted space to create a separate drive? What are my options for that extra 40GB? How exactly does JBOD work? Does it allow for one giant drive? HELP! Dayton |
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Some of it may depend on what you use to do the raid and/or
concatenation. With RAID 0 you will lose the 40gb in the stripe set, but should be able to use it in a standalone volume if your raid manager isn't a pile of crap. You cannot, however, create equal paritions agains the entire disk space with raid 0. You would get 240gb in raid 0 that you could do what you want with, but then a 40gb partition that is all alone. It can be used as well but not as part of the stripe set and not more than 40gb. You can concatenate the disks making a single volume and carve 70gb partitions out of that. JBOD is exactly what it stands for, Just (a) Bunch Of Disks. you need some sort of raid manager or volume manager to do anything with them outside of the physical layout. Without it you would have 2 drives, one 160gb and one 120gb. That's it. hope this helps. ~F On 16 Oct 2003 13:19:49 -0700, (Dayton) wrote: I have a 160GB and a 120GB hard drive in which I want to make one GIANT drive and then partition into 4 equal partitions reguardless of which physical disk the partition has to reside on. Essentially creating 4 70GB partitions. When you use RAID 0 with non-identical disks, can you use the wasted space to create a separate drive? What are my options for that extra 40GB? How exactly does JBOD work? Does it allow for one giant drive? HELP! Dayton |
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First disk: 2 simple volumes of 70, and a partition of 20.
Second disk: a partition of 50 and a simple volume of 70. The "partition of 20" and "partition of 50" must be joined to a volume set. -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft Corporation http://www.storagecraft.com "Dayton" wrote in message om... I have a 160GB and a 120GB hard drive in which I want to make one GIANT drive and then partition into 4 equal partitions reguardless of which physical disk the partition has to reside on. Essentially creating 4 70GB partitions. When you use RAID 0 with non-identical disks, can you use the wasted space to create a separate drive? What are my options for that extra 40GB? How exactly does JBOD work? Does it allow for one giant drive? HELP! Dayton |
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Unless I'm missing something here, there's no use of raid0 in the
scenario. The below will work if using a volume manager and straight concatenation, but you get zero performance enhancements. In fact it could actually slow performance. Of course, this may be fine if the layout is more important. ~F On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 07:36:18 +0400, "Maxim S. Shatskih" wrote: First disk: 2 simple volumes of 70, and a partition of 20. Second disk: a partition of 50 and a simple volume of 70. The "partition of 20" and "partition of 50" must be joined to a volume set. |
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The original poster asked for particular layout.
-- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft Corporation http://www.storagecraft.com "Faeandar" wrote in message ... Unless I'm missing something here, there's no use of raid0 in the scenario. The below will work if using a volume manager and straight concatenation, but you get zero performance enhancements. In fact it could actually slow performance. Of course, this may be fine if the layout is more important. ~F On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 07:36:18 +0400, "Maxim S. Shatskih" wrote: First disk: 2 simple volumes of 70, and a partition of 20. Second disk: a partition of 50 and a simple volume of 70. The "partition of 20" and "partition of 50" must be joined to a volume set. |
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