Each stripe is the size of the smallest partition. For example, if three partitions are selected with one partition equaling 150 megabyte , another 100MB, and the third 50MB, each stripe will be 50 MB in size. It is wise to create the partitions equal in size to prevent wasting disk space. Each stripe created is part of the stripe set.
RAID is a storage system that uses multiple disks to store and distribute data.
Up to 32 hard disks can be used with disk striping. This means that while one hard disk is servicing a request from a workstation, another hard disk is handling a separate request from a different workstation. Disk striping is used with or without parity . When disk striping is used with parity, an additional stripe that contains the parity information is stored on its own partition and hard disk. If a hard disk fails, a fault tolerance driver makes the lost partition invisible allowing reading and writing operations to continue which provides time to create a new stripe set.