How about using ASM and let Oracle do the striping that way? If you're in 10g you should be able to do that on most all platforms. Finn On 10/27/07, DBA Deepak <oracle.tutorials@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Experts, > > Due to cost implications of RAID controllers we have thought of > implementing striping at Oracle level using multiple data files per > tablespace and spreading them across various disks. Our goal is to > distribute IO uniformly across disks. Would like to have your expert > comments on the following... > > > Is the above a better approach than balacing the IO by placing various > objects in different tablespaces based on the IO on them i.e., by > monitoring the IO on various objects and placing them in appropriate > tablespaces depending on the IO that happens on them? > > What are the pros-cons in our approach? > > -- > Regards, > > Deepak > Oracle DBA >