Use SFW to combine multiple hardware arrays connected to the host via multiple buses in a single large striped volume, for higher transfer rates with some applications.

Host-based volume management can be used to aggregate the performance of multiple hardware subsystems by striping data across two or more virtual disks, each managed by a different RAID controller. Construct stripes across similar devices for the best use of storage. Because certain high-bandwidth applications, such as audio-visual streaming, have data transfer requirements that surpass the capability of a hardware array controller attached to the host by a single connection, the ability to aggregate the bandwidth of multiple data buses is needed.