Hi Jason, thanks for the reply. jason arneil schrieb: > the diskgroup, ASM will stripe your data across the devices. Okay, I guessed so, but I wasn't sure. Thanks. > You can easily get around the issue that you mention by adding multiple > devices to the diskgroup that are below the 2TB threshold. I don't see > this as being too much of a problem? Normally not. But unfortunately, I am on dedicated storage with a superfast Adaptec 5085 RAID controller. It has a disadvantage: When using RAID 6 (which is very fast on this hardware) it has only enough segments for 4 logical drives. And 4 times 2 TB are too less :( Regards Martin Klier -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk http://www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l