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Striping

The storing of sequential blocks of incoming data on all the different SCSI drives in a logical drive.

For example, if there are three SCSI drives in a logical drive, data is stored as follows:

block 1 on SCSI drive 1
block 2 on SCSI drive 2
block 3 on SCSI drive 3
block 4 on SCSI drive 1
block 5 on SCSI drive 2, etc.

This method of writing data increases the disk system throughput because multiple drives are working simultaneously, retrieving and storing. RAID 0, 3, 5, and 1+0 all use striping.

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