RAID-0: Striping
RAID-0 is also known as striping because data is interleaved across all drives in the array. Each block of data is written in round-robin fashion to array disks until the write operation is complete. Data is read in the same fashion. Since data transfer is constantly shifted to a new disk, bottlenecks associated with reading and writing data to a single disk are alleviated and performance dramatically improves. Striping was not part of the original RAID specification and, technically speaking, is not a RAID because it provides no mechanism for data redundancy. Nonetheless, the concept of striping is also found in other RAID levels. For example, RAID-4 and RAID-5 (described below) use a combination of striping and recovery algorithms to achieve improvements in performance while still offering redundancy.
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