Editing Data striping (section)

{{Short description|Data segmentation technique}}
{{Other uses|Stripe (disambiguation){{!}}Stripe}}

In [[computer data storage]], '''data striping''' is the technique of segmenting logically sequential data, such as a file, so that consecutive segments are stored on different physical storage devices.

[[File:Data striping example.svg|thumb|An example of data striping. Files A and B, of four blocks each are spread over disks D1 to D3.]]

Striping is useful when a processing device requests data more quickly than a single storage device can provide it. By spreading segments across multiple devices which can be accessed concurrently, total data throughput is increased. It is also a useful method for balancing I/O load across an array of disks. Striping is used across [[Disk storage|disk drives]] in [[RAID|redundant array of independent disks]] (RAID) storage, [[network interface controller]]s, disk arrays, different computers in [[clustered file system]]s and [[grid-oriented storage]], and [[Random-access memory|RAM]] in some systems.