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RAID levels           

RAID Level 0 : Nonredundant

A RAID level 0 system is not a true member of the RAID family, because it does not include redundancy, that is, no redundant information is maintained.

It uses data striping to increase the I/O performance.

For RAID 0, the user and system data are distributed across all of the disk in the array, i.e. data are striped across the available disk.

If two different I/O requests are there for two different data block, there is a good probability that the requested blocks are in different disks. Thus, the two requests can be issued in parallel, reducing the I/O waiting time.

RAID level 0 is a low cost solution, but the reliability is a problem since there is no redundant information to retrieve in case of disk failure.

RAID level 0 has the best write performance of all RAID levels, because there is no need of updation of redundant information.

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