For my development instance I plan to use 8k.

BTW I am using 8.1.6 on Solaris 2.7.

But for production and QA systems it should have a higher block size, correct?

I know I really need to know the bandwidth of a query... but is there a recommended range?

Something like 16k to 32k?

I know it should be <= the stripe size of the actual disks (which is like 500k I think) ... and <= the stripe size of my RAID.

Any recommendations on the block size (and while you're at it, the stripe size of my RAID)?

thanks.