<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by jfe:
We bought a Dell server with 4 Xeon 2 Ghz processors, 8GB RAM, and EMC Clariion CX600 Fibre-Channel storage unit. 
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EMC's aren't exactly cheap and they are have the poorest performance of aall of the tier 1s.
You can build high-pperformance storage for probably less than the cost of your annual maintenance with EMC.