The concepts of RAID have been generalized to other storage devices, including arrays of tapes, and even to the broadcast of data over wireless systems.
When applied to arrays of tapes, RAID structures are able to recover data even if one of the tapes in an array is damaged.
When applied to broadcast of data, a block of data is split into short units and is broadcast along with a parity unit.
If one of the units is not received for any reason, it can be reconstructed from the other units.
Commonly, tape-drive robots containing multiple tape drives will stripe data across all the drives to increase throughput and decrease backup time.