(1) The portion of a striped data set (for example, an extended sequential data set) that resides on one disk. The records in that portion are not necessarily logically consecutive. The system distributes records among the stripes such that the disks can be read or written simultaneously to gain better performance.
(2) The set of tracks located on the set of physical disk drives configured in a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) logical unit (LU) that have the same parity track. See also striped data set.