Nicholas,

1. It depends how you define performance. Restoring a database in a very short time is also great performance, and you will not get that in DAS, no unless you pay for 1 more copy of the data. 2. You should always look not at performance alone, but on price/performance, which today is with all these TCO-based calculations. This brings to the point where a fully loaded F760 with Gigabit card, can perform better than you can think of compared with those DAS systems, which forces you to the old world of static unshared copies of volumes... I believe that the fact that more and more eCommerce sites are choosing NAS (and mainly from its market leader...) as the solution will prove you better than any benchmark that this is totally possible and usable solution.

Eyal. (I ran a small Orcale database of ~5gb, no problems, have no idea on bigger configs... sorry!)

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