386D-Link ShareCenter DNS-327L User Manual
Section 5 - Knowledge Base
Knowledge Base
What is RAID?
RAID, short for Redundant Array of Independent Disks, is a combination of two or more disks with the aim of providing fault
tolerance and performance improvement. There are several dierent levels of RAID, with each one providing a dierent
method of sharing or distributing data amongst the drives. The DNS-327L supports Standard, JBOD, RAID 0, and RAID 1.
Standard provides a single volume for each drive.
Although performance is improved, the lack of any RAID or mirroring means that if one drive fails, all data on
the volume will be lost.
Standard
JBOD
JBOD allows you to create a large virtual disk drive by concatenating two or more smaller drives together.
It oers no redundancy and limited data protection.