Performance Enhancement
Drive arrays enable data access performance to be dramatically enhanced over
Distributing Data and Data Striping
Distributing data makes it possible to access data concurrently from multiple drives in an array. This yields I/O rates many times faster than
Data striping is automatically generated on an array controller to store user data. A stripe is a collection of contiguous data that is distributed evenly across all physical drives in a logical drive. The width of the stripe (the amount stored on each physical drive) is selected to optimize the performance of the operating system.
