On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. When I built my Shuttle XPC 4 years, the goal was to have a semi-portable setup. I actually took it to a drummer's house a few times. Setup time was about 15 minutes. I just used a normal hardware though (no SSD or anything fancy). Have you considered no HDD at all? Like rolling your own live CD. Just burn a bunch of copies. If you want to record your gigs, maybe use SD cards or USB drives. Just a thought. Probably harder than it sounds... What about a rackmount mini-itx case (Ihave not used these vendors or products; these are just some search results): http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/cases/rackmount http://store1.alrightdeals.com/CommonItem.htm?Product=S1_Cases_Rackmount___66632 Pricey, but seems like a good idea for a gigging musicians. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
