I have three spare 3.5 inch sata HDDs 8TB, 4TB and 2TB. I'm trying to figure out the best way to use them for backup storage. I'm trying to decide if I should get a 4 bay external box that has hardware RAID JBOD (aka SPAN) support or whether a simpler box or separate boxes that can be used with the Windows Storage Spaces Simple option would be less costly and easier to maintain. I know that setting up a Windows Storage Space requires that the drives all be blank when its created and I'm not too happy about that since I would have to move a lot of stuff around before creating a Simple Storage Space. I don't know if that's true with JBOD boxes.
Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated, as well as any recommendations for JBOD boxes!
Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated, as well as any recommendations for JBOD boxes!