I usually create a 1GB RAID1+0 LUN to store the OCR & Voting Disk (external redundancy)... Below are the requirements on each version: In 11.2 http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e10812/storage.htm#CDEEBBHE In 11.1 http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/install.111/b28263/storage.htm#BABJIDCE In 10gR2 http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/install.102/b14203/storage.htm#BABHCHIB regarding performance ... there was a discussion before --> //www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/Ocr-and-Voting-disk-slow-disk - Karl Arao http://karlarao.wordpress.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l