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Old 11-15-2006, 04:48 PM   #5 (permalink)
cyrnel
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If you haven't built a box in a while the performance floor should be easy. Maybe run mirrored storage for reliability. Surely SATA is fast enough, there are quality versions, and it's almost automatic hot-swap. Unless you buy an industrial PC the rest of the system will be commodity stuff. I'd be checking into what hardware other customers (or the authors) of the software are using. You could for example run into some weird compatibility issue with sound hardware and certain chipsets that may not be "supported." There have to be good musician forums with community talk about this stuff.

Can you play without it? How long would you be willing to mumble while a spare is swapped in? Those'd be my first considerations. I hate failures, and moving stuff around is rough on it before you deal with effects from changing humidity, temp, smoke, etc. Build a pair of less esoteric boxes, or build off common laptop functions with your software and music on a removable and extra hardware as peripherals. If that sounds bad for setup then make the storage and peripherials rackable in their own box. This also makes for easy incremental upgrades and replacement.

I'd hate to hang a band's performance on the strength of a guitar string.

As for specific audio equipment I'm way out of date.

Just some random thoughts.
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