> > > > --- "Gogala, Mladen" <Mladen.Gogala@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > no way. you cannot be serious. > > average access times are much less than that for > > decent server-class drives, > > Actually, that is not true. Average seek time for modern drives > is still around 10 miliseconds. That is the state of technology. > I've been playing with some Hitachi 10k drives (Hitachi 146/10 IC35L146F2DY10) that have an avg seek time of 5 ms. The 15k drives are 3 ms. Jared ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------