RAID 0 - Striped set without parity (Requires Minimum of 2 Hard Drives)

Striped set without parity or "Striping". RAID 0 divides data into block units and writes them in a dispersed manner across multiple disks. As data is placed on every disk, it is also called "striping". RAID 0 povides improved performance and additional storage but no redundancy or fault tolerance. Any disk failure destroys the array, which has greater consequences with more disks in the array (at a minimum, catastrophic data loss is twice as severe compared to single drives without RAID). A single disk failure destroys the entire array because when data is written to a RAID 0 drive, the data is broken into fragments. The number of fragments is dictated by the number of disks in the array. The fragments are written to their respective disks simultaneously on the same sector. This allows smaller sections of the entire chunk of data to be read off the drive in parallel, increasing bandwidth. RAID 0 does not implement error checking so any error is unrecoverable. More disks in the array means higher bandwidth, but greater risk of data loss.