Tanel, Now I am a bit in trouble. I have 2 Dell Dimension 9150 3ghz 1G ram at home and intended to buy the Firewire external disk to give a shot to RAC. The netapp you propose seems tempting but you need 3 boxes. I presume you uses vmware to simulate virtual Linux boxes or you have really 3 boxes? On vitual machines I found this also: Run oracle on Linux http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/vmware/cookbook/index.html Reading the step by step, you need to install fist vmware vitual machine. Problem, is that if you follow the link of what it is needed, it is an evaluation for 30 days, It is not free. http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/newstore/wkst_eval_login.jsp On the other hand I get this as freeware vmware: http://www.tucows.com/preview/504980 So, unless I miss something on linux, isn't the firewire the way to go to build a RAC using free soft. Please, can you share your experience on what free soft can be used to install RAC. When do you use vmware, which version of vmwware to put what piece of RAC on it (DB1, DB2, netapp) B. Polarski " Amir, I wouldn't recommend spending money and time on hacking RAC working on a firewire disk.. . . . If you want to test this on dedicated boxes, then it would make more sense to use NFS or the NetApp simulator.. http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/garg-netapp-simulator.html Tanel. > Folks, > Is there anyone using the "Maxtor OneTouch III FireWire drive" with > Linux and 10G RAC? It seems that the Maxtor II FrieWire drives listed > in document > http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hunter_rac10gr2. > html are mostly not available. I am looking for an alternative. -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l