Editing Data striping (section)

== Advantages and disadvantages ==
Advantages of striping include performance and throughput. Sequential time interleaving of data accesses allows the lesser data access throughput of each storage devices to be cumulatively multiplied by the number of storage devices employed. Increased throughput allows the data processing device to continue its work without interruption, and thereby finish its procedures more quickly. This is manifested in improved performance of the data processing.

Because different segments of data are kept on different storage devices, the failure of one device causes the corruption of the full data sequence. In effect, the [[Mean time between failures|failure rate]] of the array of storage devices is equal to the sum of the failure rate of each storage device. This disadvantage of striping can be overcome by the storage of redundant information, such as [[Parity bit#RAID|parity]], for the purpose of error correction. In such a system, the disadvantage is overcome at the cost of requiring extra storage.