RAID 10. I snipped the rest of your message because none of it matters. Never use RAID 5 on a database system. Ever. There is absolutely NO reason to every put yourself through that much suffering. If you hate yourself that much just commit suicide, it's less drastic. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly