If the answer was for me thanks. As I wrote is only for learning and 
using in University class projects, nothing massive like a CD collection 
just mare electronics circuits data from computer ports and PICs, 
probably some text too, really small data set.

I worked as a support technician in a cooperative and I had to install 
Oracle as a routine when a we had to make a clean Windows Install (XP at 
that time) and yes, it was big and when a developer added a feature, it 
was a pain to actually have it to work, even the developer had to modify 
the configuration/connection files several times and I think made an 
ODBC config in Control Panel and sometimes "the ghost in the machine" 
wouldn't let it work, even when everything was well configured, the 
developer had to personally assist the user along with me and make 
network functionality diags, reinstallations... well a nightmare and I 
got delayed to attend other users that needed me and my monthly 
attention rate dropped and I looked like I was scratching my belly half 
the freaking time, yes, fortunately no Oracle representative was around 
or I'd punch his nose on sight, well no really, because they do had 
meeting with the software engineering team and I saw them, but it was 
the piece of software I didn't want to install if I could avoid it and I 
didn't understood why they could make it friendlier, why not hire a 
small team of developers just to do that, after all it was a $us 1 
Million a year that Cooperative payed to get the product and full 
support, the network user base was 500 but the Oracle's was about 300, 
the self developed product was SIGECOM IIRC.

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