Is my Qmaster setup the best?

Currently on 3 Octos 10.5.3 Leopard I had successfully created a render farm with Apple Qmaster 3
Without any success with any of the great tutorials out there, I just finally broke open the manual.
I set up all 3 machines as services only for Qmaster Prefs.
I select 8 instances for all.
When I get to compressor I do not have a cluster created with the Qadministrator. I just select the computer I am on only, BUT check use unmanaged services on the network.
My batch monitor shows all 24 processors kicking.
I rendered an hour sequence out of FCP in DVD high quality 90 minute compression in 9 minutes.
We are setting up this for a clients 10 octos, but is this the best for them?
My settings seem to be more universal so which ever editor is working they can automatically grab available processor on the network. However, Apples Distributed Processing manual shows all the machines with external hard drives to hold the content from all the projects, is that right?
Our client will not be keeping all data, such as graphics assets, on a central server. This is there decision.
Thanks for any input at all in this dark art of Qmaster.

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