Ok I got a Asus Premium A8N-SLI board with 4 discs currently. I am not running RAID or anything and they run of the nforce4 controller. I wanted to use 2 of the drives on the RAID 5 Silicon controller the board has, However since it is raid I gotta create a RAID set then choose JBOD. I was wondering, if I actually did that right with drives that already have stuff on them would I lose the drives contents? Ofcourse I know if I did like Raid-0 or Raid-1 I would but if I just did JBOD would it leave the drives untouched or still do something to them. And if it did do something to them, and later on I took one of the drives out, would it no longer recognize the discs since there is just one disk instead of 2?
hmm, it seems doing some research that JBOD is actually like the opposite of partitioning abd it is for combining multiple disks to one partition. WHich is not what I want to do. Can I do JBOD and still have the 2 drives be independent or does JBOD force you to combine all the disks into one? If so is there a way to use my 2 drives and have them be independent (like F and D Drive) on the Raid 5 controller and do it without losing data and be able to take one of the drives out and access it on another PC or it is not possible?
hmm, it seems doing some research that JBOD is actually like the opposite of partitioning abd it is for combining multiple disks to one partition. WHich is not what I want to do. Can I do JBOD and still have the 2 drives be independent or does JBOD force you to combine all the disks into one? If so is there a way to use my 2 drives and have them be independent (like F and D Drive) on the Raid 5 controller and do it without losing data and be able to take one of the drives out and access it on another PC or it is not possible?