Sunday, 12 October 2014

What is JBOD? - Storage Basics-5

JBOD is just bunch of disk where all the disks are installed in an enclosure with common power supply. There is no controller present in JBOD and hence it cannot provide any RAID capability. Generally it has either 8 or 16 disks. Server will see each disk as independent disk and each require its own address.


Standard IO technique like SCSI and FC arbitrated loop can be used to connect to JBOD. As shown below all disks are connected in a ring to provide resiliency





It is similar to the hub topology where are the devices are connected in half duplex.  Only one device can transmit at a time and hence the total bandwidth is shared between all devices.

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