Yuo have certainly alerted me that my suspicions might be correct, but as of yet I still don't have a grasp on the actualy issues. I'm assured here by those that have been here before me that all is well, but I must admit when I hear RAID 50, I get concerned. The IO subsystem is EMC, so the response is...we write small chunks to cache and forget about from there. I'm a big fan of EMC, RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10 and I suppose RAID S, but I abhore RAID 5 and have just now today heard the term RAID50. As a new hire, I'll have to do further research and learn more about the topic before raising concern to managemnet. -- .. David > Write an email, right now, to your management, and to whomever was > involved in this decision, expressing your deep concerns about the risks > they've taken with enterprise data and it's availability. > > This is your only chance, when your databases are down (and they > inevitably will be in a matter of time), to defray the blame. > > And as I'm often fond of saying to those who make decisions I don't > agree with, or are forced to live with them "good luck with that....". > > > > > Michael Fontana > Sr. DBA > NTT/Verio > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------