I would just leave it as a regular filesystem - there's no real advantage to using ASM, and your sysadmins are no doubt more used to dealing with filesystems than ASM. Matt -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Schauss, R. Peter (IT Solutions) Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:16 AM To: Oracle L Subject: ASM - is it overkill for a small database I am in the very early planning stages for a small database (Oracle 10g), probably no larger than 10 gb/200 users, probably running on a Windows server. Would it make sense to use ASM or is it overkill for an instance of this size? Thanks, Peter Schauss -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l