Definition: Striping


Spreading data over several disks on a bit, byte or cylinder level. The intention is to improve performance, through letting positioning and read/write operations overlap in time.




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FAT16

Older version of the FAT file system, based on 16-bit integers, has a limitation with respect to the size of partitions it can handle.

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