Can you set up jbod as 4 independent disk or does it merge them into one drive?
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JBOD or even a mix of different RAID arrays (i.e. a 2 drive RAID1 and a 3 drive RAID5) is possible.
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No, n5550 supports only 3 volumes. Two physical drive should merge one drive.
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yes. In fact the whole concept of JBOD is that each disk would be accessed independently.
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Either way I believe, however, I had so many issues with this NAS, I stopped using it and bought a Seagate NAS.
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No, it cannot be a JBOD. It forces at least 1 disk to be a data redundant disk. No, any data on the disk will be wiped after putting it into the Drobo as the device formats it with its own filesystem. When you put the disk into the Drobo, it will almost immediately begin formatting it if it isn't one of the drobo's disks.
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I had compatibility issues when I went to the 4TB, some of the 4TB's want work well with the older 3TB, make sure you check the firmware on your 3TB and 4TB if you need them to run JBOD and RAID should never be mixed. I had 3TB in this device and tried a newer 3TB with a different firmware / version. Didn't work. Never would see the full size of the disk.
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Not sure what you mean by drive letters (presumably drive names?) but yes, you can use it with a Mac as 4 individual drives in JBOD mode (Just A Bunch Of Drives). I use two of them that way. One issue is that if you 'eject' (unmount) any of the drives from the desktop, you won't be able to access them until you either turn the CineRAID unit off and turn back on, or use Disk Utility to re-mount them.
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Hi to the best of my knowledge an experience on a Windows platform it shows as 2 separate drives. On the Mac os it shows as 1 drive.
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depend on yore RAID, can be done using JBOD if you use RAID0 to RAID5 every drive/s you add will have to be its own RAID
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If running JBOD setup "spanning mode" you can add disks to a volume, any other RAID mode you cannot add drives to a volume without dataloss.(except drive replacement in Raids 1 or 5) I setup a RAID1 on two drives(want all my stuff backed up) then when to try and add two more disks(again equal sized) and grow the volume. this cannot be done. have to setup a second volume or copy your data off and change the raid. On a side note the USB ports can be used for a big USB drive, then setup a backup task on the nas to copy your files off when you want to grow a raid or change format. (took 24 hours to copy my 4TB of data off to a 6TB mybook drive.
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Practically you will need to put your drives into another DiskStation - I've done this and the data was migrated with no problems and no action needed from me. However, mind that you can't put 7 discs into a 4 bay box - but if you have only 4 drives in your 8-bay box, you can put them in a 4-bay box and they will show. They also must be put in the new box in the same order as they were in the old box.
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You can set it up as JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) which Synology calls 'Basic' which can be different sizes or as RAID 0 since all your drives are the same size. After formatting them you can then divide your disk pool of 16TB into one or more volumes. Either way I believe you lose all data if one disk is lost.
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Yes, there are three options- Speed (Raid 0), Security (Raid 1), Capacity (JBOD) = Just a Bunch Of Drives or like you asked "two disks separately as two 2TB drives". https://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10573
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yes, I have two of these boxes, & I I either raid 0 or leave it at the default which is JBOD.right now, I buy a lot of Seagate Barracuda 4 terabyte drives, and put them in and out of these boxes per my various jobs. I work off of the one box that I have at 16 terabytes raid 0, & I back up to the JBOD single drives. it all works fine, & I configure everything using Disk Utility.
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Yes, in one of two ways. You can partition the whole drive as ExFAT, or have a Windows partition (FAT32) and a Mac partition (HFS+).
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Hi, yes indeed, as well as being a raid 0, 1, 5 unit this product is also a very competent JBOD (just a bunch of discs) that interfaces with your via a decent USB 3.0 port. It very (too) easily switches between those storage configurations; just don't make the mistake of switching before you've backed up your data!!
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As far as I know from the documentation, if you place the drives in with the dip switches set to JBOD then you should be fine. I'm not sure how well that functions since I was mainly interested in the HW RAID.
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Yes, as a JBOD I have (1) 3TB and (3) 500 GB drives installed. I will add though, my MacMini has a had issues with seeing all.
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Yes, if you use software RAID, and not the built-in RAID. Then the box would be set to JBOD ("Just a Bunch Of Disks"), with the software RAID package taking care of the RAID on the specified drives.
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Yes. I found out just the other day. You need to format the Target Drive before duplication. I did mine, took forever but, No Errors !