What about the IOPS? Many providers throttle the disk speed ...
If it's a dedicated server there should be no throttling present. I am not sure on this one as I've only used dedicated servers in production. I think any CMR hard drive should be fine. More advanced rigs should run ZFS with ram/ssd caching, but that's a whole other monster to deal with.
Thanks again. Yes, dedicated servers are not throttled while VPSs are.