I found the article very interesting. It seems they couldn't trash
3ware cards enough.
We swear by 3ware cards -- other than the PCIX riser card issue, we
haven't a single problem with them. Our production database server is
running off of a RAID1 for the OS and a RAID10 for the data and every
Tweakers.net has completed a comparison of 9 serial ATA RAID 0/1/5/10
controllers at:
http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557
There is a specific section on MySQL performance in the section:
http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/25
Just thought these articles would be of interest to some (it's
