For the HDD setup, I focused on speed more than space considerations. The new server has 8 x 36GB 15k rpm SCSI HDDs. 2 are in RAID1 for the OS & other stuff, 4 setup in a RAID10 for databases and the last two are hot spares. I also have space for 1 IDE HDD in the server, so will include one of those to have just in case - maybe to use for additional backup copies.
There is one thing I'll be working on that may considerably speed up the databases. I'll keep that under wraps for now, but it should be quite good if it works.
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