We are in the midst of licensing the SAS software product for a server. This is an extremely expensive product, and the charge for a quad-core machine is tens of thousands of dollars more than for a dual-core machine. If you are unfamiliar with SAS, it does lots of sequential I/O and is rarely CPU bound. So we are looking to put together a high performance machine that uses only a dual-core processor. I know that dual-core is now usually very low-end (or laptop) but creative suggestions are welcome. Ideally we would like PCI-e slots for SAS or SATA controllers so that we can have a lot of fast local storage.
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