JBOD here just means “show me this bunch of old drives as a single drive/partition”. It’s just a recommendation to at least get something out of these drives - but don’t use this as backup storage , these drives are old and if a single one fails, you lose access to the whole array.
If you’re not sure what to do with them, juste get an USB dock or USB/SATA adapter and treat them as old books, copy not-so-valuable stuff on them, and store them in a bookshelf with labels such as Old movies, Wikipedia dumps 2022…
poVoq@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
btrfs has this built in with additional redundancy, so that is by far the better option to combine multiple drives into one large pool.