In a side note, I was playing with the Amazon elastic compute cloud (very interesting stuff), and I was testing the IO bandwidth of one of my virtual servers, and I was chugging through 100MB/sec. of sustained reads and writes...not bad for $.10/hour. Matt > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tanel Poder > Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:09 AM > To: kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'ORACLE-L' > Subject: RE: Using SAN or local drives? > > > > > 100MB/sec from a single disk? Really? > > > The Seagate cheetah 15k-5 is said to deliver 125MB/s > sustained.. At least according to their whitepaper :) > > http://seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_cheetah_15k_5.pdf > > Tanel. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l