29 May
2008
29 May
'08
10:27 a.m.
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.
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David
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