Todays external disk arrays ususaaly give even better performence then local disks. We have almost all our database on EMC. Yechiel Adar Mehish Computer Services ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Wells" <bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Oracle-L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 6:19 PM Subject: Datafiles accross multiple disk > All, > > Newbie here again. > > We are running a DW on 9.2.0.5 on w2k Advanced Server. im trying to > manage disk space on our currrent server. We were down to 5GB of disk > available on the e:\ drive as of last weekend when i moved index > datafiles/tablespaces to the external f:\ array. would this cause a > perfomance hit? is there a better best practice to have datafiles > accross disk? Im sure there is since im continually learning. Also, > im still trying to find the disk speed between the array and the > server. > > Bryan S Wells - DBA Newbie > bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l