What is Striping?

Understanding Striping

RAID technique writing a data set across multiple drives. Data striping is a technique that segments data and writes it across multiple physical storage devices in a round-robin fashion distributing the I/O load and improving performance through parallel access. In RAID configurations striping provides performance benefits and when combined with parity or mirroring also offers fault tolerance. Striping is defined in RAID specifications and storage standards from organizations like SNIA. Organizations implement striping through storage controllers RAID configurations software-defined storage and distributed file systems. For example a database server requiring high performance might implement RAID 10 mirroring and striping storage striping data across multiple drives for improved read/write speeds while mirroring the striped sets to provide redundancy in case of drive failures balancing performance and data protection requirements. Related terms RAID Disk array Storage performance I/O operations Parallel access Parity Mirroring Storage virtualization.