Rosewill HDD RAID RSV-S4-X - Manual (Page 11)

4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual
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high security volume, the greem section is the middle security volume and the light blue
shows the unprotected area.
Figure 1: Dividing Disks into Members
2.3 RAID LEVELS
2.3.1 DISK STRIPING (RAID 0)
Striping is a performance-oriented, non-redundant data mapping technique. While Striping is
discussed as a RAID Group type, it is does not provide any fault tolerance. With modern
SATA and ATA bus mastering technology, multiple I/O operations can be performed in
parallel, enhancing data throughput. Striping arrays use multiple disks to form a larger virtual
disk. The figure below illustrates a three-disk stripe set. Stripe one is written to disk one,
stripe two to disk two, and so forth. RAID 0 sets can be comprised of two, three, or four
drives. If the sizes of the disk segments are different, the smallest disk segment will limit the
overall size of the RAID Group.
Stripe2
Stripe5
Stripe8
Stripe11
Stripe0
Stripe3
Stripe6
Stripe9
Stripe1
Stripe4
Stripe7
Stripe10