Open Dental Forum

Using the MacPro and running win 7 virtually is an interesting configuration. How is the speed compared to a straight windows machine? Also your RAID configuration gives you redundancy for hard drive failure but does not protect you against power supply or motherboard failures which appear to be the...

“May I ask why you need a server at all?” I think that is a very good question! As a general rule, I think is a whole lot of misunderstanding and superstition regarding “servers” in dental offices. In my own case, I am not planning on using it as an email server or connecting to any of the Microsoft...

I neglected to mention that in order to use xp on a client computer, the hard drive needs to be formatted with NTFS, not fat32. That is sort of a PITA – I had two computers with fat32. One I replaced with a new Costco computer and the other I reformatted and installed win 7.

I am underwhelmed by the responses to this posting!  So I will add a little of my experience; so far, so good. I am “bread boarding” the system at home before I bring it to the office. SBS 2011 Essentials seems an excellent solution for dental offices with fewer than 25 computers which is probably ...

Anyone have any experience / problems with sbs 2011 essentials and OD?