Open Dental Forum

Hi All. I want to put together a custom server for Open Dental with 3 or 4 workstations. As there are so many options out there to choose from, I'm wondering what people have found that works well and is adequate to run the software without issues. I know you can spend alot of money on a server and have all kinds of power, but I really just need something that will do the job smoothly with some headroom just in case. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

3 or 4 workstations, just use a 5th workstation, it wont use many resources. in your case the best advantage to a server is server-grade reliability. that typically is worth it. if you go that route just get a basic dell entry level server, T3xx or even T1xx series stripped down will be sufficient with RAID1 and a good backup system.

Agreed. For smaller offices, another workstation works just fine. Just make sure people know it's the server and that they probably shouldn't shut it off in the middle of the day