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In the Thread: Better organization/design forDAW.

Post Subject: Options DAW boxPosted by Romy the Cat on: 12/4/2011

I looked what is around and I did not like whatever I see. The industry music server machines are all crap and mostly made to copy CDs and to play them from semi-intelligent applications. My requirements are very specific and not of the existing machines fit them. Here what I need and it is very simple: single core moderate speed processor, option to install my Lynx 16 card, XP operation system, at least 8 USB connectors. Simple? Well it gets more complicated from there.

If I decided to locate my 5 files storage hard drive inside the box then I would like to have a very large box with 7 drives + 2 small drives (5 storage + System + Recording) and I would like to load the box with a LOT of fan to keep the HH cold. (I do not like to shot down drives as I feel it kills them). This will put my DAW box to where it is now, in basement. The problem with it that USB does not run very across 8 feet cable, so in my listening room I have no access to the box, except keyboard and monitor.

There is another option: to get a mini-computer with silent operation and put it right to rest of my equipment in my listening room. This mini- computer shall have a slot for Lynx 16 card and a clot for E-SATA card, along with all of those USB connectors and CD-ROM that become to be local. The mini-box needs to have two small drives for System and Recording. My storage drive do to the array box and connected via E-SATA, they all my live in that basement. I kind of like this second solution but I did not see a good barebones mini-computer. Usually the mini-computers have very compromise motherboard and do not give the options that I need, not to mention that “silence”. The west would be for me to get barebones mini-computer with option for externals power supply as I do have silent PS that works very well. It would be nice to hire somebody to let this person to do research and building…

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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