On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:26 -0800, Benjamin Arai wrote: > My original plan was to buy a 3WARE card and put a 1GB of memory on it > to improve writes but I am not sure if that is actually going to help > the issue if fsync=off. My experience with a 3Ware 9500S-8 card are rather disappointing, especially the write performance of the card, which is extremely poor. Reading is OK. -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 e-mail: J.Kraaijeveld@xxxxxxxxxx web: www.askesis.nl