Owain D. Lloyd of The University of Cambridge has demonstrated a new RAID 0 technology christened Logical Zone Variable Striping or LZVS and has called on hard drive manufacturers to develop a capability to read backwards from the middle of the drive in order to further exploit this technology. A 14% performance improvement over traditional RAID 0 was demonstrated and the author is considering whether or not to make his Linux kernel extensions available to the public.

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