On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Steve Harville <steve.harville@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > You could go raid 5 instead of raid 10 and get more useable disk. There > should won't be a write penalty since writes are cached on that hardware. That only works up until the write cache gets saturated. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com