Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

small office PC build

Options
  • 05-03-2015 3:34pm
    #1
    capefear
    Registered Users Posts: 773 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys
    We are moving to a small office with another start up company and need to get pc’s etc sorted.
    We are hoping to have the following set up – 4- 6 pc’s (with dual screens) networked to either one main PC or Server.
    The software that we will be using on each pc is office 365 (word, excel etc), dropbox and one drive (1TB of storage) Abode cloud and all other software is mainly online , except two computers that will have accounting software, that will be stored on the main pc/server.
    We also have 4 or 5 monitors in different sizes.
    we have 1 vostro 220 and 2 optiplax gx520 desktops as well as three external harddrives and laptops, all have windows 7 and various size hard drives.
    My questions
    do we need a server? Or can we buy/build or use parts from the pc’s above to have one good pc that will act as the master (i think thats what its called) and the 3 pc’s above can be use as the workstations (or client) as we dont want to have to fork out for a whole new system and then have other stuff to be recycled.


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,167 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    You dont need a server by the sounds of things. AD functions might be handy if there were many staff and a few machines, but it sounds like in your setup you can get away with just setting up backups from each machine to a NAS and run the accounting package on one of the workstations.

    Ideally run good AV and give most users limited accounts so they cant get themselves infected.


Advertisement