LSI MegaRAID SCSI 320-2 RAID Controller Series 518 Hardware Manual page 29

2.3.5.1 Stripe Width
Figure 2.1 Disk Striping
Segment 1
Segment 5
Segment 9
Disk striping involves partitioning each disk drive's storage space into
stripes that can vary in size from 2 to 128 Kbytes. These stripes are
interleaved in a repeated, sequential manner. The combined storage
space is composed of stripes from each drive. MegaRAID SCSI 320-2
supports stripe sizes of 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, or 128 Kbytes.
For example, in a four-disk system using only disk striping (as in RAID
level 0), segment 1 is written to disk 1, segment 2 is written to disk 2,
and so on. Disk striping enhances performance because multiple drives
are accessed simultaneously; but disk striping does not provide data
redundancy.
Stripe width is a measure of the number of disks involved in an array
where striping is implemented. For example, a four-disk array with disk
striping has a stripe width of four.
RAID Overview
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MegaRAID Controller
Segment 2 Segment 3
Segment 6 Segment 7
Segment 10 Segment 11
Segment 4
Segment 8
Segment 12
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