XP JBOD vs WHS

[ottozylch46]

Just a question about putting together a server. Is there much of a difference between using XP and putting the HD's in a JBOD for a single volume vs using WHS which "pools" the drives into a single volume?
Not looking for any sort or RAID, just want a simple setup that lets me add drives as I need the space. I have WinXP and if I was able to use it in this capacity, would save me a few bucks if I really didn't need to buy WHS.
Is one of the above better than the other? Does it matter much for what I want to do?

Thanks.

 

[nitrobass24]

Yea it you do a spanned volume with dynamic disks in XP, when one drive dies you lose everything.

Its kinda like a RAID0 but without the performance gain.

 

[Neb]

With a JBOD setup if you lose a single drive, you lose everything as nitro said above. With WHS if a drive dies, you can still recover the data from the other drives.

 

[LhasaCM]

With a JBOD setup if you lose a single drive, you lose everything as nitro said above. With WHS if a drive dies, you can still recover the data from the other drives.

...but only if it's in a folder that's duplicated.

 

[nitrobass24]

...but only if it's in a folder that's duplicated.

Not quite

For example

Lets say you have 10 HDDs in your WHS, and nothing is duplicated.
If one drive dies, then you only lose the DATA that was on that drive, and everything else is intact. If you had duplication then you still have everything.

Same Scenario but with XP, if one drive dies, then you lose everything on all 10 disks.

 

[sabregen]

nitro's got it (of course). simpler explanation: in whs, it's just like stand alone drives. if one goes down, the other 9 are still up (assuming 10, from previous example). no recovery needed. and yes, in a JBOD, becase you are basically appending the GPT or Dynamic Disk with the next one, in series, if one dies, all your data is gone. For anyone familiar with VMware, and the concept of extents, the idea is the same. Any drive is potentially the single point of failure.

 

[LhasaCM]

nitro's got it (of course). simpler explanation: in whs, it's just like stand alone drives. if one goes down, the other 9 are still up (assuming 10, from previous example). no recovery needed. and yes, in a JBOD, becase you are basically appending the GPT or Dynamic Disk with the next one, in series, if one dies, all your data is gone. For anyone familiar with VMware, and the concept of extents, the idea is the same. Any drive is potentially the single point of failure.

Correct - I read his post too quickly before replying. My bad.