Jeez Paul, it was just an example. :) Jared On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 18:15, Paul Drake wrote: > OOH - odd number of disks for RAID 0 >> BRAIN HURTS. > > These days, I can only do math in my head in powers of > 2. > > 2 advil plus a dose of the paper at hotsos on > "Aligning Oracle Blocks with Hardware Stripe > Boundaries". > > RAID 1 ( 2 ) > RAID 10 ( 4, 8) > RAID 0 ( 1, 2, 4, 8 ) > > Far better to use that odd number for a hotspare > (although a hot spare for RAID 0 is not really > worthwhile). > > RAID F ... sorry, can't do it. > > Pd ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------