Re: OT Windows XP Professional (opinions?)

Big difference between XP Pro and XP Home:

I'd get XP Pro, not XP home. The big difference for me is that XP Pro lets
you use dynamic disks. Cool thing about dynamic disks is that you can
create a spanned volume; I use spanned volumes because I deal with a lot of
audio files. When I run out of space with a spanned volume I just add
another disk and it adds the space to the other disk. I don't have to
reformat or move any files around. For example, I have two 186 MB IDE
drives in one of my boxes and XP Pro (or W2K Pro) just treats it as one 372
MB drive, Drive E. If that gets full, I can just add, say, another 186 MB
drive and then I'll have a 558 MB Drive E. With XP Home, I'd have to have 3
separate drive letters and when I added a new drive I'd have to figure out
some way to organize all the data. All that copying, re-formatting,
organizing, etc., would be pretty annoying and time consuming too.

My wav folder for Sonar has about 130 MB of wave files in it; I just put it
on the spanned drive and I don't have to worry about organizing the wave
files into folders for each project, and I don't have to duplicate anything
and waste space. Once or twice a week, I do an over-the-network backup to
an old PIII running Win 2K with spanned drives. The backup file (*.bks) is
about 195 MB, but no matter how big it gets, I don't have to worry about
having a single drive big enough to hold it because I can always add another
disk to the spanned volume.

If I was doing video, it'd be even more important, since video files are
humongous.



"RickH" <passport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1124402324.636739.113330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Rick Del Savio wrote:
>> PS Costco's selling
>> XP Pro for $185 US.
>
> If the machine is going to sit at home and you have no need for robust
> network/remoting support then yes, XP Home will do everything musically
> that XP Pro does, all the device drivers are the same and present.
>
> If you travel and want access/control over your home machine from
> another machine via the Internet, then get Pro. Or if you have dual
> processors, get Pro. Or if you are creating a home network, its nice,
> but no necessary to have at least one XP Pro machine on that network so
> that you can do centralized administration.
>
> So, the main difference between XP Pro/Home are the additional
> networking features, the ability to use multiple processors, and a few
> advanced security features like encrypted file system and permissions
> admin. If you dont need these then dont buy them.
>
>
> For me... I need to be able to access my home machine(s) remotely while
> I am at client sites by using remote access, this for me is worth the
> extra cost but then again it's work-related.
>


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