Which of the following RAID levels would provide the BEST performance with no fault protection?

RAID 0, also known as striping, distributes data blocks across multiple drives without any parity or mirroring. This parallel data access maximizes both read and write performance because operations can occur concurrently across all disks, but it offers no fault tolerance as the failure of a single drive results in total data loss.

RAID 1 (mirroring) duplicates data across two drives for fault protection, which provides redundancy but does not offer the best performance compared to RAID 0 due to write overhead.

RAID 3 (byte-level striping with dedicated parity) provides fault protection and has performance implications due to parity calculations and a single parity drive bottleneck.

RAID 5 (block-level striping with distributed parity) provides fault protection by distributing parity data across all drives, which incurs a performance overhead, especially for writes, compared to RAID 0.