For anybody who cares about details:
Desktop:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
4GB DDR2 1066 RAM
Video: 8800GTS 512
C: Drive: Western Digital 1TB Green
Raid 10 Using 4 500gb drives on an Intel controller inside my computer
an LSI Megaraid 320-2 SCSI controller controls the box with power supply on top and the SAS
the SAS box has 12 250gb drives in raid 5 and the box with the power supply has two 70gb 10,000rpm disks in raid 1.