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This spiffy new JBOD Enclosure from ThinkGeek features a one touch backup function, blue and red LED’s and data transfer up to 480Mbps (60MB/s) over USB 2.0. So you may be asking yourself – when would an enclosure like this be useful? If you have 1TB of data to transfer to another system and you only have two 500GB drives, then you could place both of your 500GB drives into this enclosure to create a single 1TB drive to move your data with. The caveat here is a big one however – while your data is on this JBOD disk system (which stands for “Just A Bunch Of Disks”) it is not redundant and if either drive fails, your data is potentially gone gone gone for good. Also good to know is that JBOD ≠ RAID-0, which means the typical speed increase one would see from a RAID-0 config is missing in JBOD. This is a very cool enclosure for use in specific situations.
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