Hi Martin, Oracle will stripe (1MB) across your RAID (creating a plaid) which is okay as long as the stripes of your raid are a multiple of 1MB (e.g. 256KB stripes). You could create you backend RAID and present with 6 (x2GB) LUNs carved from your RAID config as your diskgroups. Just some thoughts. Good luck, Oliver -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Klier Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 2:54 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Does ASM's EXTERNAL REDUNDANCY concatenate? Hi list, does ASM's EXTERNAL REDUNDANCY feature stripe the data or does it concatenate them? Background: Oracle EE x86_64 on Linux, Version 10.2.0.4 Setup: 2x Adaptec 5085, each connected to an own SAS JBOD with 16x 1TB HDD, one of them is global hot spare disk I want a diskgroup with 12TB in size, 6TB on each JBOD. Another sad thing: Due to Metalink note 6453944.8, I can't create ASM diskgroups with disk members larger than 2TB due to corruption risks and ORA-15099 (which is really nasty!). Any ideas to the question or to my sceanrio in general are greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance Martin Klier -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk http://www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l