I want to set up a network at my home and possibly do data backups for a few small businesses locally. I will be using a P4 3 GB processor w/ 2 GB ram and 6 harddrives on IDE controllers. What would be the benefit of using 2000 Server edition over XP Pro?
I am at a loss as to why I should use a “server” edition for the OS?
Any help would be appreciated.
I have 4 machines running locally with approx. 100 GB of digital images and 50 GB of music which I share with my wife and the pictures run in the 65″ in the living room. The server computer will be in a closet and used primarily to store the pics and music – and later for the data backups I mentioned earlier. Currently all of my machines are networked @ 1000MBPS and I just map the drives between machines.
