Re: [LAU] Took the leap and ordered an Intel Mini-ITX

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:27 AM, david <gnome@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> 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
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It was Samsung that announced the 256GB solid-state drive.

http://tinyurl.com/4tq99b

Apparently it's faster than previous SSDs

cheer,
ernie

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