Originally posted by KenEwald
The size of your data files is more a factor of MTTR (mean time to recovery). Takes longer to recover a larger data file.

A couple weeks ago I heard of a guy with a tablespace consisting of one 500 Gigabyte datafile. (10g "bigfile") .. running on a mac.

Guess it's possible, but not something I would do.
gee whizz, bet that took some time to create.

Also if you have separate disks, just made sure you spread it across all of them