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Can someone advise me on my network setup?

As storage is my main emphasis in this network (I plan to have 2 Terabytes of data total and I would like to have a backed up copy of this size as well). I have decided to go with the following configuration but just want to see about good recommendations. I haven’t bought any of my products yet but here is my idea of a small business network for 5 people with 2 printers, 1 scanner, 3 desktops, 2 laptops:
modem–> wireless router –> switch –> pc‘s, printers, server, scanner, wireless access point

My products are as follows:
Router- Belkin N+ $100

http://reviews.cnet.com/routers/belkin-n-wireless-router/4505-3319_7-33361546.html?tag=mncol;lst

Switch- 3com officeconnect gigabit ethernet switch w/POE $400

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2290423,00.asp

Server- PowerEdge T100 $1800
Quadcore Intel Xeon X3220, 2.4GHZ, 2x4M cache
4GB, DDR2, 800MHZ, 4×1 Dual Ranked DIMMS
Microsoft Small Business Server 2008, Standard Edition with Media
SAS6iR(SATA/SAS controller) RAID 1
2x160GB hardrives SATA 3Gbps
CD/DVD Drive
Onboard Single Gigabit Network Adapter
1yr warranty
1removable hard disk cartridge 80gbnative/160 compressed

Pc’s/Laptops- All meet 802.11 n standard

Buffalo Terastation Home Server NAS (2TB) $750

http://reviews.cnet.com/external-hard-drives/buffalo-terastation-home-server/4505-3190_7-31864376.html?tag=mncol;lst

WAP- 3COM AirConnect 9550

http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?pathtype=purchase&tab=features&sku=3CRWE955075

My network is for a small doctor’s office and I am certain it will not grow beyond 5-7 people. I will also be using cat 5 wiring, Kaspersky Anti-virus, and I am thinking about using either Microsoft Ftp publishing (comes with Windows Server 08) for file transferring or maybe Filezilla or WinSCP

The odd thing is that my main software program (EClinical Works) specs a minimum of: Quadcore Xeon 1.4 Ghz, Windows Server 2003/2008, 4GB of memory, at least 16GB (OS) + 30GB (Data)
But the oddest thing is that they say the server with this EClinical software shouldn’t run an active directory, RAS, and/or terminal service.

Will I need two servers because the one with my software on it doesn’t want an active directory run on it? I’m also a little confused about how the file sharing will work with the Network Attached Storage device, does Windows Server have something in it to implement this? Also from a security standpoint what would I need to address in Windows if I have a NAS, will Windows file sharing be secure between the users/server/clients?

My point with the NAS was to save money and separate the data from the server processor (only OS+apps)…also the cheapest servers on Dell have about a 2.4GHZ processor and a 160GB hardrive for about 1600….would buying a nice desktop and putting Windows Server 2008 on it be a better option??

I looked on cnet.com and certainly found that the Buffalo Terastation Home Server NAS (2TB) is my best option…but its uses mirroring and spanning instead of RAID and its write performance is slow due to its RAID 5 configuration. Should I be concerned?

The biggest point is that I want my system to be low maintenance, easy to setup, and my switch to be un-managed (aka no IT expert needs to be around to configure the ports…etc)
Ok I understand the remote device security issue….but I’ve looked around and it seems difficult to find a server (such as from dell or HP) that has 2 Terabytes of redundant (RAID 1) hard drive space. Also how much onboard memory would I need to have on one server that would someday have 2 Terabytes of memory…wouldn’t that be really expensive? I Also though separating the data from the OS+apps would result in better performance and a server that is easier to manage and the server wouldnt have to cache data storage. The NAS emulates a windows share (CIFS). Also I will contact the software company about the active directory thing because I don’t want to have to buy two servers that ridiculous. Also I was thinking FTP or something to access this network remotely.

MSDN Microsoft Develper Network How and what can I use this for how to make server? Softwar?

I have 4 large boxes/folder each has dozens many CDs MSDC software includes listed below each folder also says ” Subscription”

If you know what this software is for, or witch software I should install into what Operating systerm and what hardware specific cards I need to have in order to use my desktop PC as server so I can publish my own web sites that would be great, I would be very thankful greatful!
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Comment on Featured Content?

The ‘Featured Content’ appears in a table at the top of the Y!A home page, it is ‘playing pages[/previews]‘ that each detail an item and with a link to the respective pages, in as much it also has buttons for back[''] and pause ['||']…. I have a question about posting a comment on some featured content called, “Changes to how we display edited answers”, on,

http://www.yanswersbloguk.com/b4/2010/10/22/changes-to-how-we-display-edited-answers/

Just simply – my comment cannot be posted again, it returns a message stating it is a duplicate – so it has definitely been sent. The Comments link however still appears as Comments(0) and does not load anything, nor does refreshing the page reveal the comment has been loaded with the content – where is it? What has happened here?

Anyway, this is the comment following, for your perusal – it only expands and elevates the service provided to something more comprehensive if you understand and follow this to a useful end – the reason I posted it, and so also the basis of this question – to be able to read the comment [maybe read the Y!A blog post first too]:

This is in keeping with all things being fair – although it smacks of ‘competition’…, an edit arriving like a placeholder has set down an [otherwise worthless] entry is therefore, say, a ‘stake’ claiming the earliest possible submission in response to the question or a means to come back & copy a better answer and paste it with the earliest time stamp giving the impression it was the one being copied.

With the ‘[re]edited’ flag, you get to know something potentially useful along those lines – while with the kind of ‘thread’ described above as >>showing how an answer has changed over time and things like highlighting changes with a different colour<<…, you'd get a vital gen on the information updating, and it's perhaps much more useful, yet said to be too difficult to manage.

Here, I would like to impart my experience:
If a post is too long for Y!A, I blog it and provide a link. If it’s too long for Yahoo Pulse, I’d use Google Docs – These are places you can continue to edit and the link remains the same, no addendum to the text and no updated time stamp – so it can be completely bypassed.

The Preview is the best way on Y!A to ensure an answer is fully prepared for publishing so you don’t have to return and edit again, but for the best results overall, use your pc Notepad [without word wrap] for the same formatting, then copy & paste – And, if you paste into e.g. your email client’s new message body, or a word processor document, you can also spell check it there prior to any instance of it occurring on Y!A. This is the more reliable way considering the momentary loss of your internet connection/Yahoo service is occasionally also causing loss of data, if you preview or submit and it doesn’t load properly – the Back button might not always return the previous page with your edit, just a blank form instead to start again with…
Your local system platform software provides the better editor.

If the edit thread could be catalogued and indexed, it should require only your blog to do it – in much the same way as you can update your Facebook with your Y!Answers – if it is a frequent occurrence and this somehow clocks up too much storage though, then a reasonable time frame can be set so older posts become archived – compressed or eventually available only as a backup on a [remote] site that the user specifies and maintains the links to at their discretion.
I attempted a few times – and I refreshed the page, the link never worked.

It’s not a rant, it’s how to bypass it in one particular way that also offers more room for the entry, and a grasp of what it means in terms of ‘a placeholder’ that’s understanding – ‘this matters to what Y!A users?, how?’….
…and then it said I was entering duplicate information when I tried to resend it.