HP Xw6400 Workstation RAID Support - Page 6

RAID 0 Arrays (Striped) Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 Logical Drive Size = All of total physical capacity Data blocks alternated between drives Block 1 Block 3 Block 5 Block 7 Block 9 Block 11 Block 13 Block 15 Block 2 Block 4 Block 6 Block 8 Block 10 Block 12 Block 14 Block 16 Drive A Drive B Physical Drives • Raid 0=Striped • Data is interleaved among the physical disks o Data writes and reads are parallel o Offering maximum hard disk performance • All physical space is available (for example, two 40GB drives shown as one 80GB volume in OS) • Single hard drive failure results in loss of all data • Perfect for applications requiring best possible hard drive/application performance 6