>>> >>>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. That is 113MB/s. You wouldn't happen to have 1Gb HBAs would you? Is this data striped across, say, 10 spindles? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l