Some 3Ware articles I found useful.  From: http://www.3ware.com/KB/kb.asp

• Q14928 - FAQ: Do you have support for Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008?
  http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14928
• Q15385 - Compatibility: I want to use the 3ware 9690SA with the SATA Seagate Barracuda ES.2 family drives (ST31000340NS, ST3750330NS, ST3500320NS, ST3250310NS drives) drives. Are they compatible with each other?
  http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15385
• Q14911 - How to question: I have a 9550SX with a RAID 5 array on it. I suspect one of the drives is slow, causing overall lower performance in my array. How can I figure out which drive is the culprit?
  http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14911
• Q14952 - Performance/Optimization: I am running a 3ware 9550SX/9590SE under Windows. What kind of performance can I expect to get?
  http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14952
• Q14956 - Performance/Optimization: Hi, I have a 9550SX, 9590SE and 9650SE. Performance is very good when I transfer data locally, but when I transfer data over the network performance is very slow. How can I fix this?
  A firmware fix for this performance problem is available in the 9.4.2 or newer code set
  http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14956
• Q14875 - How to question: I am using Ghost with 3ware controllers and it is very slow. How can I speed this up?
  http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14875
• Q14855 - Performance/Optimization: Are there any benchmark results available for the 9550SX?
  http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14855
• Q11690 - Performance/Optimization: I am using the Atto Bench32.exe benchmark under Windows to measure performance with my 9500S, 9550SX, 9550SXU, 9590SE, 9650SE, or 9690SA controllers. Is there any way to increase the Atto performance numbers?
  http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=11690
• Q12546 - Software Configuration: I was using the 8506 and 9500S in my SuperMicro X5DPE-8 and getting great write performance with RAID 0 and RAID 5. I moved the controller and drives to a SuperMicro P4SCI motherboard and now my write performance is about half of what it was before. The read performance is the same. What is going on?
  This applies only to PCI and PCI-X, and not PCI-Express (e.g. 9590SE, 9650SE).
  http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=12546
• Q15129 - FAQ: I am using a 3ware 9650SE in a Windows system as a domain controller. On reboot the controller's write cache is disabled.
  http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15129
• Q15244 - Performance/Optimization: I am not getting the performance I expect. What can I do?
  http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15244

Any I miss?