Raid 0 – Stripe - Promise Technology VTRAK E610f Product Manual

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RAID 0 – Stripe
When a disk array is striped, the read and write blocks of data are interleaved
between the sectors of multiple drives. Performance is increased, since the
workload is balanced between drives or "members" that form the disk array.
Identical disk drives are recommended for performance as well as data storage
efficiency. The disk array's data capacity is equal to the number of disk drive
members multiplied by the smallest drive's capacity.
Figure 1. RAID 0 Striping interleaves data across multiple drives
For example, one 100 GB and three 120 GB drives will form a 400 GB (4 x
100 GB) disk array instead of 460 GB.
RAID 0 arrays require one or more physical drives.
Recommended applications: Image Editing, Pre-Press Applications, other
applications requiring high bandwidth.
Disk Drives
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Data
Stripe