Which *myth* do you mean? If you mean the idea that you can change default block size after database creation then that is indeed untrue. If you mean that 4k block sizes are faster than 8k block sizes, almost certainly that will be true for this hardware (provided that the partitions are aligned correctly as well). Flash disk most definitely benefits from doing single 4k i/os to its native 4k "blocks" where possible. an 8k block write on this hardware is "two" writes. I've read the white paper and it looks to me like a copy/paste error or else an editor ensuring that all the howto sections have the same format. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Darn that myth is still running around? No you're not missing anything, > but the author certainly is. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l