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Author:
D. Ryba
Date: 1-29-02
Subject: RAID
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RAID Level 0 (Striping)
RAID level 0 does not provide fault tolerance. This level is also known as disk striping, because it uses a disk file system called a stripe set. Data is divided into blocks and is spread in a fixed order among all the disks in the array. RAID level 0 improves read and write performance by spreading operations across multiple disks, so that operations can be performed independently. For this exercise, we will be focusing on RAID Level 0.
MTBF
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