Just a Bunch Of Disks

(jargon, storage)

(JBOD, or "Just a Bunch of Drives") A storage subsystems using multiple independent disk drives, as opposed to one form of RAID or another.

For example, Unisys open storage provides JBOD in both SCSI and fibre channel interfaces.

Unisys JBOD.

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JBOD

(Just a Bunch Of Disks) A group of hard drives in a computer that are not set up in a RAID configuration. See hard disk and RAID.

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