LB Shared Hosting, which is good and is it worth?

I have a technical challenge for you...it's related to Shared hosting LB

Consider the following two configurations below, which one do you think can handle more load and is it worth?

Configuration 1 (say MSSQL DB doesn't come into picture)
Alteon AC3 (load balancer, 8 ports)
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8 Dell Poweredge 2850s (Dual 3.0, 2G RAM, Raid5 3x36G 10K with MS Server 2003, Web Ed)
Each server will host THE SAME 16,000 dynamic sites
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DAS PowerVault 220s (146Gx14) storage


Configuration 2 (say MSSQL DB doesn't come into picture)
8 Dell Poweredge 2850s (Dual 3.0, 2G RAM, Raid5 3x146G 10K with MS Server 2003, Web Ed)
Each server will host 2,000 dynamic sites, all together is still 16,000 dynamics sites.

Anyone?

 

 

 

 

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