Maybe Apple's Xserve RAID? I have no experience with it, but read about it a while back when it first came out and it sounded like a pretty good value: http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/ ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ethan Post Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 3:23 PM To: oracle-l Subject: You have 10K US$ and need 5TB's of storage for Oracle 10G RAC test environment... What would you buy? Is this even possible? Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it.