Sorry, I know this is a little old (couple weeks) but I thought I'd make a very important point regarding the hard drives. More spindles will always be better than spindle speed. For Database performance, Raid10 is where it's at. Since you're already at 4GB of memory, you'll see more performance increase by upgrading to a raid10 then you will by switching to a SCSI drive. A single drive in any kind of server is always a bad idea and will almost always be your bottleneck. So, take it for what it's worth.
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