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JBOD
JBOD ("just a bunch of disks") exposes each drive on its own with no redundancy or striping, sometimes concatenated into one big volume. It maximizes usable space and mixes drive sizes freely, at the cost of any fault tolerance — one drive dies, its data is gone.
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