jbod

I work in film post production and we often receive footage from our clients on a bunch of HDDs (up to 40 drives in a cardboard box!). We're looking for a device, such as a docking station, that would allow us to conveniently connect as many HDDs as possible, simultaneously, to a single Mac...

Planning to replace my aging Mac Mini with the Mac Studio, I simply need to store lots of files somewhere, but don’t need the full NAS or RAID experience, and would very much like to learn your opinion on the available options, please.:) This is what I found so far: TerraMaster D6-320 6-bay...

I received the Western Digital My Book Duo as a holiday gift and am wondering if I can make it work with my Mac by reformatting and using in JBOD configuration without hardware encryption. I'd want to be able to remove the drives from the WD enclosure and use them on their own if I ever needed to.

In my 5,1 mac pro, I have a Sonnet M.2 4x4 PCIe card with two 2TB nVME SSDs configured as a JBOD concatenated set that I use for storing VST audio libraries. I started running out of space so I just added a new 2TB drive. After rebooting, OSX (Mojave) ask me to initialize the drive and I used...

I have a JBOD array consisting of two external USB drives, and have a third one on standby that I plan to add to the array once the second drive starts filling up. I am however a bit curious about the inner workings of JBOD on macOS. When I created the array and started moving data to it, I was...

Hi all (apologies if this should go into another subgroup - please move if you please). I‘m about to receive a 2017 iMac 27 with 512SSD (yeah!). Well, I wanted to expand it with an Atiko 2x 2.5 drive (?) external enclosure that connects via Thunderbolt2 using two Samsung 512GB SSDs (850 EVO I...

Hi all, I'm considering setting up a RAID0 system, using 3 / 4 disks, through a combination of a JBOD enclosure and software RAID, either MacOS's own software or SoftRAID. Would any of you have insights concerning the following? 1 Am I correct to I believe you can use any JBOD enclosure...

When being used in JBOD mode, does the Qx2 enclosure support SMART?

I'm finding it hard to find a drive enclosure. I need a two bay enclosure that supports JBOD. I use this as a large volume for video editing. My current ensloure is about 5 years old and is having an issue with either power supply or the power port, as it keeps turning off after few seconds...

Hi, I'm looking to buy a cheap Mac Pro 5,1 from ebay soon and wanted to add some fast storage to it. I was looking into the Newertech MAXPower RAID Mini SAS 6G2e card to give me 2 external SAS connectors to plug in up to 8 drives. This was all great in my head until I realised I'd neglected...