Explain RAID 0 Levels with diagram
- A RAID 0 (also known as a stripe set or striped volume) splits data evenly across two or more disks (striped) with no parity information for redundancy. RAID 0 was not one of the original RAID levels and provides no data redundancy. RAID 0 is normally used to increase performance, although it can also be used as a way to create a small number of large logical disks out of a large number of small physical ones. A RAID 0 can be created with disks of differing sizes, but the storage space added to the array by each disk is limited to the size of the smallest disk. For example, if a 120 GB disk is striped together with a 100 GB disk, the size of the array will be 200 GB.
- Raid 0 is not redundant. In level 0 data Is split across drives, resulting in higher data throughputs. Since no redundant information is stored, performance is very good, but the failure of any disk in the array result is data loss. This level is commonly referred to as striping.
- Striping – writes data across multiple drives. Involves partitioning each drive storage space into stripes that can vary in size from 2KB to 1MB. These stripes are interleaved in a repeated sequential manner.
