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What Is a Striped Volume

A striped volume Stores data on two or morę physical disks by combining areas

of free space into one logical volume on a dynamie disk. Striped volumes, also

known as RAID 0, contain data that is spread across multiple dynamie 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 ail 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 seąuentially. Conseąuently, 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.