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

From: david <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri May 30 2008 - 12:48:47 EEST

Ernie Dulanowsky wrote:
> 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.
>
> It was Samsung that announced the 256GB solid-state drive.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4tq99b
>
> Apparently it's faster than previous SSDs

Thanks for straightening out the manufacturer. That's good. Nothing
about price in their press release, though.

Will they survive Seagate's claim that SSDs infringe on Seagate patents?

-- 
David
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