Characteristics & Advantages

• Very high Read data transfer rate
• Very high Write data transfer rate
• Disk failure has an insignificant impact on throughput
• Low ratio of ECC (Parity) disks to data disks means high efficiency

Disadvantages

• Transaction rate equal to that of a single disk drive at best (if spindles are synchronized)
• Controller design is fairly complex
• Very difficult and resource intensive to do as a "software" RAID

Recommended Applications

• Video Production and live streaming
• Image Editing
• Video Editing
• Prepress Applications
• Any application requiring high throughput