Wondering how many of you use External Vs Normal redundancy in ASM installations. If normal is chosen over external or vice versa, any compelling reason for choosing one over the other would be appreciated. Sorry Daniel. Didn't mean take the thread away from you. PS. Sorry to Re-post as it didn't get through the first time. On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Randy Johnson <oraclelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Daniel, > I've been using ASM for the past 5 years (since 10.2). I've had very good > experience with it on all sizes of databases ranging from multi gigabytes to > multi terabytes and I'm a big fan. I've read the posts by Rui and Mark and > they did a good job of calling out the pros/cons of ASM over file system > storage. Here's my $.02: > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l