Used them in a lab. works ok; plenty of speed. The good ones allow you to write to memory cache; and "ack" the oracle process; and then takes the cache to disk.. What little testing we did; I just put the online redo logs and archive redo's on them.. greg -----Original Message----- From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mladen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 9:00 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Filesystem vs. Raw IO On 05/28/2004 08:31:26 AM, Nuno Souto wrote: > Writing to memory is no comparison to writing to > disk. Not yet, anyway. How about solid state disks? There was an article about US government buying 1TB solid state disk. I imagine that the speed of writing to that baby is not an order of magnitude larger then the speed of writing to memory. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Note: This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Wang Trading LLC and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------