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Title: LS-WVL/E LinkStation Pro Duo JBOD Support?
Post by: Bohemus on June 02, 2013, 11:03:16 AM

I have gone through the manual and dont see anything mentioned on if this unit supports JBOD. I assume that it does, since it supports RAID. I have a 3TB and a 1TB drive that I just want to use as JBOD to maximize the capacity of the two drives, however I want them to appear as one logical unit and not two drives when I am in FTP and SAMBA. Is this possible? Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: LS-WVL/E LinkStation Pro Duo JBOD Support?
Post by: Bohemus on June 03, 2013, 08:01:23 PM

Bump

Title: Re: LS-WVL/E LinkStation Pro Duo JBOD Support?
Post by: davo on June 05, 2013, 06:14:36 AM

When using JBOD they will appear as 2 disks, you cannot use them both as one logical volume, you need RAID for this.

Title: Re: LS-WVL/E LinkStation Pro Duo JBOD Support?
Post by: Bohemus on June 05, 2013, 03:10:29 PM

Unfortunately, I have two drives of differing size - 3TB and 1TB. If I use RAID0 then wont I be limited to 2TB in total capacity?

Title: Re: LS-WVL/E LinkStation Pro Duo JBOD Support?
Post by: Bohemus on June 09, 2013, 11:53:03 AM

Ok, I just received an email from Buffalo support and they say this unit does support JBOD spanning across two drives. I am getting conflicting information, some say that they JBOD mode in this unit will show two separate volumes while others say it will show one volume with the combined size of both drives. Confused!

Title: Re: LS-WVL/E LinkStation Pro Duo JBOD Support?
Post by: davo on June 10, 2013, 08:29:17 AM

JBOD as the name suggests is just a bundle of disks, hense no RAID or spanning, this being the case both HDDs appear seperately.

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