RAID LEVEL 0: Data Stripping without Fault Tolerance

RAID LEVEL 0: Data Stripping without Fault Tolerance

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Click on the diagram to see Raid 0 in action

RAID 0 splits ('stripes') data evenly across two or more disks, without parity information, redundancy, or fault tolerance. It is normally used to increase performance.
RAID 0 requires at least 2 drives to implement

Characteristics & Advantages

RAID 0 provides great performance in read and write operations.
No overhead caused by parity control.
Performance can be enhanced further by using multiple controllers, ideally one per disk
The technology is easy to implement

Disadvantages

No data redundancy.
Controller design is fairly complex
Very difficult and resource intensive to do as a "software" RAID

Recommended Products

Recommended Applications

Image and Video Editing
Live Streaming
Scientific Computing
Computer Gaming
Applications that require high performance, instead of reliability