Striping (RAID 0) splits the data onto several disks for performance, and RAID 1 and RAID 5 provide fault tolerance using different methods (see RAID). Contrast with basic disk. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

Since Windows 2000, we ve had two different disk types: basic disks and dynamic disks. A basic disk is one that can be accessed by MS-DOS and previous versions of Windows, depending on the file system ...