Timothy Daniels wrote:

> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>> No, raid 0 requires two or more drives. It's called striping.
>> It puts pieces of files alternately on the several drives so
>> you don't have to wait for the first read or write to finish
>> before starting the next. It's for increased performance,
>> not redundancy.
>
>
> More accurately, RAID 0 does I/O faster because the
> pieces are being done at the same time to more than one
> drive, the read or write of each piece being completed
> on its particular drive at about the same time as all the
> other pieces. The speed comes from parallelism, not
> from overlapping beginnings and ends of I/O tasks.


Well, you said it differently than I did, but I'm not sure what you're
describing is any different . Overlapping beginnings and endings achieves
parallelism.

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