RAID strip size and db_file_multiblock_read_count

The ORACLE tuning guide says that the minimum strip size to use in a raid array is twice that of db_block_size * db_file_multiblock_read count? Why is this? Won't that force each read for a table scan to be limited to one disk in the array? I'd think that you'd get better performance by making it just the opposite and so that each table scan read is done accross multiple disks. -- Chuck Hamilton chuckh_at_safeplace.net

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