Addendum: Choosing a storage scheme
The Home Storage Center supports 3 different storage schemes. The following will
outline the benefits and disadvantages of each of these schemes.
JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks)
Advantages: Minimum of 1 hard drive is allowed. Total storage capacity is total of
all hard drives together.
Disadvantages: If a hard drive fails all data on that drive is lost.
Raid 0 (Striping)
Advantages: Faster read and write speeds.
Disadvantages: Minimum of 2 hard drives. If one drive fails all data is lost. The
smallest drive in the array determines the total capacity, example:
HDD1 is 500GB
HDD2 is 500GB
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Total Capacity 1000GB
Raid 1 (Mirroring)
Advantages: If one drive fails no data will be lost.
Disadvantages: The total storage capacity is equal to the largest hard drive.
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