On May 28, 2008, at 7:18 PM, Ken Restivo wrote: > After following the thread here about laptop survival rates live, > I've decided to roll my own ruggedized embedded softsynth box: > > http://www.restivo.org/blog/archives/a-more-portable-setup > > I'd appreciate any advice anyone here might have to share regarding > this adventure. > > I'm particularly curious about storage options. I'd rather not put > in a spinning hard drive, and go with some kind of flash drive with > an ATA or SATA interface, if such things exist. There are the Emphase FDM4000X units. This plug into the motherboards IDE header. They support both PIO and DMA (the previous model only supported DMA). 2g is 66 USD from Logicsupply.com. They make sizes up to 8 gigs. I got one of the previous model at work, but it had to be RMA'd. They are replacing it with the current model, and I'll mention it when I get to try the new one. Currently I use Kingston CF cards (the brand wasn't my choice and they aren't very nice to work with as a boot drive) and I really hope the FDMs are a lot better. I heard that the SanDisk CF units are also good. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
