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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.
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Figure 21: 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.