Luc, I have a system we set up exactly that way because we needed the redo thoughput; wasting space was not a huge issue. The problem is these SAN arrays don't come with smaller drives :) It depends on requirement - have you got a feel for IO/s or any redo stats? Even with this approach you can serialize on the internal emc write queue for a single drive in the raid1 set unless it is striped. If you go with this approach, have the emc drives set to use only the outer tracks which have a higher thoughput... Bruce -----Original Message----- From: "Luc Demanche"<lucdemanche@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: 3/29/05 9:41:11 AM To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"<oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Configuration of the SAN Hi, We are trying to do a good configuration of our SAN. Let's see that exemple. EMC, with disk of 146G. - one LUN of RAID-5 for data (4+1 disks = 534G) - one LUN of RAID-5 for index (4+1 disks = 534G) Here is my question, about redo logs - one LUN of RAID-1 for redo group 1 (2 disks mirroired = 146G) - one LUN of RAID-1 for redo group 2 (2 disks mirroired = 146G) - one LUN of RAID-1 for my archived log files (2 disks mirroired = 146G) I will have a filesystem of 146G to store my redo group of 2G .... what a waste. Same thing for my redo group 2 and my archived log files ... What is your LUN configuration regardinf redo log groups and archived log files ? Thank you -- Luc Demanche Oracle DBA (514) 867-9977 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l