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146 • Workstation Setup & Administration Guide
Chapter 9 • Managing Your Windows 2000 Workstation
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About Striping
Striping is the process of configuring hard drives to allow the system to see
two or more drives as a single drive. When you transfer files to striped drives,
the files are split between the drives, and the data transfer rate increases.
Striping is required to work with uncompressed and high video resolutions.
Keep in mind the following when striping drives:
• Avid|DS requires at least eight drives striped together to sustain real-time
performance.
• Hard drives of different sizes cannot be striped. For example, you can
stripe eight 36-GB drives or eight 18-GB drives, but you cannot stripe four
36-GB drives and four 18-GB drives together.
• Striping drives deletes any material on them.
• Striping is cumulative. For example, when you stripe eight 36-GB drives,
you can create an approximate 288-GB partition.
• If one drive in a striped volume becomes damaged or inoperable, the data
on the remaining drives are lost.
• The capability for striping drives is built into the Windows 2000
operating system.