What Is a Striped Volume

What Is a Striped Volume A striped volume stores data on two or more physical disks by combining areas
of free space into one logical volume on a dynamic disk. Striped volumes, also
known as RAID 0, contain data that is spread across multiple dynamic disks on
separate drives. Spanned volumes cannot be striped.
Data that is written to the stripe set is divided into blocks that are called stripes .
These stripes are written simultaneously to all drives in the stripe set. The major
advantage of disk striping is speed. Data can be accessed on multiple disks by
using multiple drive heads, which improves performance considerably.
Striped volumes offer the best performance of all the disk strategies because
data that is written to a striped volume is simultaneously written to all disks at
the same time rather than sequentially. Consequently, disk performance is faster
on a striped volume than on any other type of disk configuration.
Use a striped volume when you:
! Read from or write to large databases.
! Load program images, dynamic-link libraries (DLLs), or run-time libraries.
! Want to provide the best performance for high usage files, for example page
files.
Use striped volumes for page files, because striped volumes provide the best
performance for high usage files.
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