Choosing xServe model

Hello,
I am planning on making a order for a xServe during next week. My goal is to find the value for money balance and not buying something too overkill for my server-needs. I hope you can help!
I have a small company with 4 employees who are all connected to our Gigabit network / Aiport Extreme (n-band).
We will be using it for our primary mail accounts, daily backup services, shared drives for photoshop and webdevelopmentfiles, calender and mobile services in 10.6 Server. It will also run some VPN services for our network.
I have been looking at the BASE 2.26 Quad with 6 gb Ram, 3 x 1TB drives for my primary RAID (backup and shared drive data) and a SSD drive just for the system and applications following advice from another thread here!
Will the small xserve be able to handle this and also if we expand with 5-10 people more and some 'friends' get calendars and mail accounts. I know xserves are build for much higher user numbers, but due to the many purposes for this xserve I was not sure if it was better or necessary to buy a 8 core model.
Also I have seen some 1. gen XEON xServes being sold cheaply second hand. They look like they are in mint condition, but the prices would allow me to buy 2 or maybe three for the same price. Is used xserves a no-go?
Thank you!

I am always amazed at how low expectations are for Xserves. You spec is way more than adequate for 4 people. It can easily handle 30 to 50 as long as you don't intend to use it in a computation grid. In the role of traditional file services, your system spec is adequate. RAM is more important than CPU. However, I am still not comfortable with the SSD drive concept. Once again, there is no redundancy.
I personally prefer an Xserve with three 1 TB drives and the hardware raid card. Yes, you loose capacity but you gain redundancy. If you partition an 80 GB boot volume you have 1.7 TB of space for data and the knowledge that if a drive dies, you are still up and running.
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