I maintain a small network of 30 workstations. My boss has finally gave me the money to upgrade our file server. Times are tough and I really dont want to spend money unless it's going t be an improvement. I don't run any applications on the server. The server is used to share my foxpro data and control who logs in to which workstation.

Any suggestions at all on hardware/software.
I'm leaning towards saving some money and just staying with our NT4 for the OS. Are there any performance advantages to upgrading to 2000 server, or small business server?

Since I am only serving up files, would I see a major improvement with dual processors. I expect so, because when I copy large files to/from my server, the CPU monitor pegs out at 100%.

I understand the concept of RAID, but what's the bottom line. Is there a noticable performance increase for serving up my fox apps.

The old sever has 256mb of memory and according to the performance monitor, it uses nearly nothing, remains flatline all the time. I assume this is becuase there are no applications running on the server, it just serves up files. SO I am thinking of maybe just 256 or 512; i think is a standard bare amount.

SCSI or IDE, since sharing files is the big issue here, I think SCSI is the best way to go, even though the new IDE's are faster than they use to be.

I will be using a linksys gigabit NIC card, so the network speed shouldnt be an issue.

I'm just looking for a no frills foxpro file server, to serve my fox apps as fast as possible. No SQL.