Ooops, now I have egg on my face. I meant to say 100 GB in 15 minutes, not 100 MB. That still seems awfully slow, but 100 MB in 15 minutes would be awful. Keith > >>> >>>>Indeed, that sounds worse than a firewire attached external >>>>SATA array :) > > even ASM can't fix that > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l