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 An interesting idea. I did up a design 10-15 years ago that would stack a small mobo (same dimensions as a 5.25" floppy drive) with a hard drive and power supply), with fan on top (the only logical way to exhaust heat from a computer case!). Hook it to monitor and keyboard when needed, otherwise (in your case) use MIDI controls. > 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. I saw an article today, some Japanese manufacturer (Hitachi?) announcing a 256GB solid-state drive. Probably incredibly expensive, but available. Depending on how much storage you need, maybe an 8-16GB sD/xD memory card and reader would be enough? One issue you might think about re SSDs - I understand that while they provide fast data reads, they're quite slow on writes. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
