As the Japanese car maker said: I hate to see 'dat Sun go down. Gogala, Mladen wrote: > But it also have to compute checksums and wait for all > disks to complete I/O before returning the result. In > my experience, RAID-5 (EMC-Clariion) was not faster then > Symmetrix configured for RAID 1+0. There are great adds > for RAID-5 at http://www.baarf.com written by Art Kagel and > James Morle, and a great add for RAID-5 on http://www.hotsos.com > called "Configuring Oracle for VLDB" by Cary Millsap. Also worth > reading is an article by Hank Tulis called "Aligning Oracle Blocks > with Hardware Stripe Boundaries" which can also be found on Hotsos > and which gives fairly good understanding of the issues with Oracle > and Raid. You should read those articles and show them to your SUN > representative. If he persists, then take the latest edition of Tom > Kyte's expert 1-on-1 and shove it up his...intestines. Tom's book > was selected for size, not for any other reason. You can use > Encyclopedia Britannica or Yellow Pages for NYC instead. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------