--- Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > What matters is the performance of your system under > load. If you have 10 > disks in > a RAID 0 with all indexes and data residing on it > and the performance is > somewhat > lackluster, splitting those disks into two 5 disk > RAID 0 drives and > physically separating > the indexes and data will not improve performance. > OOH - odd number of disks for RAID 0 >> BRAIN HURTS. These days, I can only do math in my head in powers of 2. 2 advil plus a dose of the paper at hotsos on "Aligning Oracle Blocks with Hardware Stripe Boundaries". RAID 1 ( 2 ) RAID 10 ( 4, 8) RAID 0 ( 1, 2, 4, 8 ) Far better to use that odd number for a hotspare (although a hot spare for RAID 0 is not really worthwhile). RAID F ... sorry, can't do it. Pd __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------