{"id":10623,"date":"2011-10-03T08:07:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T08:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.open-e.com\/?p=10623"},"modified":"2025-07-07T09:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:14:27","slug":"what-is-raid-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/what-is-raid-0\/","title":{"rendered":"What is RAID 0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"What<\/a>We published an article about RAID 5: “How does RAID 5 work? The Shortest and Easiest explanation ever” – now is the time for the whole series.\u00a0 We will try to show you, in a few words, the shortest explanation for RAID standard levels \u2013 0, 1, 1+0, 0+1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and Matrix.\u00a0 Now is the time for RAID 0 – take a look…<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is RAID 0<\/h3>\n

We can describe RAID 0 as a connection of two (or more) physical discs \u2013 so as to appear as one logical drive.\u00a0 In such a case, the whole capacity is equal to the number of discs multiplied by the capacity of the “smallest” one. i.e.- If we have two HDDs – 250GB and 500GB, the size of the array will be equal to 500GB.<\/p>\n

RAID 0 is also called a “stripe set” or a “striped volume”. This is because data is split (striped) between discs – without parity information for redundancy.\u00a0 In other words, RAID 0 does not provide data redundancy.\u00a0 Inter-leveling of data between the disks causes a significant acceleration of read and write operations – due to the paralleling of these operations on all the discs in the array.<\/p>\n

Pros and Cons<\/h3>\n

The capacity of the whole array is seen as a whole. By implementing such a solution, it is also possible to increase the read and write speed (but only compared to a single disk).<\/p>\n

When we talk about RAID 0, it\u2019s also necessary to write about the drawbacks.\u00a0 First is the issue of data safety.\u00a0 Such a method is not designed for data loss prevention. It means that the failure of one disc may cause the loss of all data contained in the array. Moreover, data recovery can be difficult because it\u2019s distributed across all discs. It is also impossible to recover “striped” data. Even when using special (and costly) tools, the recovered data can be incomplete and corrupt.<\/p>\n

The second thing is capacity. Even if two discs are used – 100 GB and 1TB – the array storage will equal 200GB.\u00a0 So the use of disks with different capacities is uneconomical because of the inability to use their full storage potential.<\/p>\n

When RAID 0 is useful<\/h3>\n

Because the only benefit of RAID 0 is its write\/read speed, we can point to only one rational use for it – to build cheap and efficient arrays and use solutions based on the RAID 1+0 or RAID 0+1.\u00a0 Check this out for RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID 1+0 solutions.<\/p>\n

RAID – The Series. Check out:<\/h3>\n