Greetings,
I currently have the following hard drive setup in my main desktop...
1 x 1.5TB Boot drive (C
2 x 2.0TB RAID 0 (D
1 x 1.5TB Backup drive (E
1 x 1.5TB Spare drive (F
I am now planning to buy a pair of 3TB Seagate drives to replace my existing RAID 0 array. The data on the existing RAID 0 volume will be migrated over to the new 6TB RAID 0 volume. I have a OCZ Revodrive 3 240GB on order that will become my new boot volume (I should have this by next Tuesday). With the goal of reducing the number of drive letters present on my system, I am planning to move both of the 2TB drives in the existing RAID 0 array out of their current setup to serve as my new backup drive.
I understand how a concatenated JBOD volume is structured. What I am unsure of is how the data on that volume is structured. I am still a bit unsure as to whether the data on one drive of the JBOD volume will be recoverable should another drive in said volume fail. The data on the current backup volume is not currently replicated anywhere else, but will be soon, given the 3 x 1.5TB drives coming out of my main desktop and going into my server box. This is why I only briefly considered a RAID 1 array as an alternate solution.
If anyone could confirm whether data recovery software would be usable if one JBOD drive failed, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks!
TP
I currently have the following hard drive setup in my main desktop...
1 x 1.5TB Boot drive (C
2 x 2.0TB RAID 0 (D
1 x 1.5TB Backup drive (E
1 x 1.5TB Spare drive (F
I am now planning to buy a pair of 3TB Seagate drives to replace my existing RAID 0 array. The data on the existing RAID 0 volume will be migrated over to the new 6TB RAID 0 volume. I have a OCZ Revodrive 3 240GB on order that will become my new boot volume (I should have this by next Tuesday). With the goal of reducing the number of drive letters present on my system, I am planning to move both of the 2TB drives in the existing RAID 0 array out of their current setup to serve as my new backup drive.
I understand how a concatenated JBOD volume is structured. What I am unsure of is how the data on that volume is structured. I am still a bit unsure as to whether the data on one drive of the JBOD volume will be recoverable should another drive in said volume fail. The data on the current backup volume is not currently replicated anywhere else, but will be soon, given the 3 x 1.5TB drives coming out of my main desktop and going into my server box. This is why I only briefly considered a RAID 1 array as an alternate solution.
If anyone could confirm whether data recovery software would be usable if one JBOD drive failed, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks!
TP