Hi,
 
I am currently doing large weekly updates with fsync=off.  My updates
involves SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE and etc.  Setting fsync=off works for me
since I take a complete backup before the weekly update and run a "sync" and
"CHECKPOINT" after each weekly update has completed to ensure the data is
all written to disk.  
 
Obviously, I have done this to improve write performance for the update each
week.  My question is if I install a 3ware or similar card to replace my
current software RAID 1 configuration, am I going to see a very large
improvement?  If so, what would be a ball park figure?
 
Benjamin Arai
barai(at)cs(dot)ucr(dot)edu
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