Editing Data striping (section)

== Method ==
One method of striping is done by interleaving sequential segments on storage devices in a [[round-robin scheduling|round-robin]] fashion from the beginning of the data sequence. This works well for streaming data, but subsequent random accesses will require knowledge of which device contains the data.  If the data is stored such that the physical address of each data segment is assigned a one-to-one mapping to a particular device,  the device to access each segment requested can be calculated from the address without knowing the offset of the data within the full sequence.

Other methods might be employed in which sequential segments are not stored on sequential devices. Such non-sequential interleaving can have benefits in some [[Error detection and correction|error correction]] schemes.