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I thought you were going to have 5 workstations and 1 server, that is 6 ports 2 for expandability on and 8 port switch, not a good idea imo. imagine you wanted to add 3 more workstations and a wireless access point, you would need to buy a new switch.
I would personally go with the cisco one...
I would get a switch with 24 ports for expandability in the future.
this might be overkill
http://www.ebuyer.com/224927-cisco-small-business-24-port-managed-gigabit-switch-free-8-port-switch-sge2000p-g5?utm_source=google&utm_medium=products
but this may be the right sort of thing you need...
I use RAID 1 in my home machine(2x1TB), it works well and i would 100% use it in a server combined with carbonite for backup purposes. Would probably go for 2x2TB's though now.
Raid 5 is technically better value but you require 3 disks and in this case it is pointless.
RAID 1 + online backup...
I don't know how viable this would be for you but instead of using RAID for backup why not use the cloud, with the current prices of hard disks and internet speeds getting faster all the time it seems like a really good solution to me. Simple to set up too...
I am actually going to say i had already thought of that Vlan idea, but after Vlans being shot down i decided i would only get flamed for posting it. lol.
I am talking about a user bringing in a personal laptop so the company would hav no control over the AV used on it.
Well you could set every pc's MACaddress to be allowed on any port but any other are not allowed, bit more time consuming but cheaper than losing a couple of days productivity.
yes what has been said by KDF is perfectly good and will work, what happens when an employee with a little bit of knowledge plugs his virus infected laptop into the network and the whole network suddenly has a virus and no-one can do any work?
This is the only reason i suggested using a switch...