HW RAID Config for Oracle DB on Windows

We are currently running Oracle 8.0.5 on Windows 2000 Advanced Server. This is a DELL PowerEdge 6600 server with 8 73GB Ultra SCSI Hard Drives. We will be upgrading to Oracle 9i in the future. Question: What would be the recommended Hardware RAID Configuration? We've heard that RAID 10 would be a good configuration to implement. What would be the best way for us to configure our server? We would like a high fault tolerance, good performance system. Our database isn't very large in size (10GB). By the way, switching to a different operating system is not an option for us.

Hi
In we use 9i on Win 2k3 with RAID5, it is fault tolerance and i think RAID5 is the best configuration for performance and security and fault tolerance. but keep in mind that RAID has the small write penalty.
And it is suggested by many consultants that if you're using RAID you should put the control files and the redo logs on disks outside the RAID array, but this configuration is for very large DBs.
RAID5 is working perfect with me, i have dual XEON 2.4 4 x 15000 x 34 GB SCSI HDD and 4 GB Ram ofcourse our DB is almost 30 GB.
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