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Using Non-RAID JBOD Drives

Drives that aren’t part of the RAID environment are called JBOD disks (just a bunch of

disks). If you install a new drive or a drive taken from a computer without a RAID card,

it’s treated as a JBOD disk. If you install an unformatted drive, you see a dialog that asks

you how you want to proceed.

Open Disk Utility: Opens Disk Utility so you can erase or partition the drive and then

use it in the Finder like any other disk. The resulting JBOD disk can also be read on a

computer that doesn’t have a RAID card installed.

Ignore: Leaves the drive unformatted.

Open RAID Utility: Opens RAID Utility so you can use the disk to create a RAID set or a

spare drive. The disk is shown in RAID Utility with the state JBOD.

A non-RAID disk has

the state JBOD

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Apple Xserve RAID User's guide User's Guide Page 17