Re: [TCLUG:14085] RAID 0 reliability

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 12:18:23AM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> What is the use of striping?  Does it just concatenate all the disks
> together to make them look like one big disk?  If so, what is a real world
> use for that?

	Well, when reading from the combined disk, each access will go
to a different drive.  This will increase throughput by theoretically
doubling the total bandwidth to your storage medium.

Have fun (if at all possible),
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