They would be getting consumed if your BCHR was high enough....Unfortunately, hardware is frequently bought by bargain hunters who go for their friendly neighborhood sales event in which you bring in your 5 100GB disks and get one 500GB disk at the 25% of the original price. CFO will look extremely favorable on a deal like that and any PHB is likely to ingratiate himself (or herself, I've seen female PHB personnel as well) to his superiors by saving money. If they only could switch to GEICO.... -- Mladen Gogala Ext. 121 _____ From: Connor McDonald [mailto:mcdonald.connor@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 4:56 AM To: Oracle-L Subject: Re: CPUs NOT getting consumed ? True story - I am at this very moment sitting in front of a server at client site which has: - 8Gb RAM - 4 x 3.4Ghz Xenons and ... wait for it... 1 (mirrored) 300G disk. Its fair to say that CPU's are certainly not getting consumed here.... :-) -- Connor McDonald =========================== email: connor_mcdonald@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:connor_mcdonald@xxxxxxxxx> web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk <http://www.oracledba.co.uk> "Semper in excremento, sole profundum qui variat"