Cats wrote:

> So, in your view, given we have RAID 1+0 in a modern machine, there's
> no point in spending ages concocting a 'cool' disk layout? My own
> thinking was that while there is a great pile of data, it's a small
> proportion of it that's used most of the time and if we have lots of
> buffers, that is where it will get read from most of the time.

You might want to consider fragmenting some of your data to get parallel
operations and/or fragment elimination but with IDS10 this can be done
within the same dbspace.

Also as someone else has pointed out parallel backup and restore might
be an issue.

Ben.