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Hello All!!
(A Brief history) I work on a 25meter survey vessel. We spend large amounts of time offshore doing hydrographic and ecological surveys and the occasional painstaking radar traffic survey.
We are lucky enough to have some of the most sought after navigation hardware at our disposal and this is all linked into two main navigation/data PC's via a huge network of serial ports and cabling.
(Now the problem) As you may or may not know the weather conditions effect the stability of the boat we often find ourselves contending with very rough sea conditions and Slamming up and through waves.Not to mention the continuous vibration from Main engines and generators that are running 24hours. This over time has taken its tole on a countless number of Hard drives and general pc components. Weve tried everything from elastic bands to laptop hard drives to various foan and bungee chords etc.....
Our current train of thought is two shuttle computers with SSD's but i'm not so sure !
Any advice on SSD's? Are they what we need? They dont have to any bigger than 64gb and the software is designed to run as a boot so the computer spec is not of gaming standard!! No i7 extremes please as nice as they would be!!
Space is about enough for two standard atx towers.
Any thoughts and opinions would be much appreciated!
Thanks
Franko
(A Brief history) I work on a 25meter survey vessel. We spend large amounts of time offshore doing hydrographic and ecological surveys and the occasional painstaking radar traffic survey.
We are lucky enough to have some of the most sought after navigation hardware at our disposal and this is all linked into two main navigation/data PC's via a huge network of serial ports and cabling.
(Now the problem) As you may or may not know the weather conditions effect the stability of the boat we often find ourselves contending with very rough sea conditions and Slamming up and through waves.Not to mention the continuous vibration from Main engines and generators that are running 24hours. This over time has taken its tole on a countless number of Hard drives and general pc components. Weve tried everything from elastic bands to laptop hard drives to various foan and bungee chords etc.....
Our current train of thought is two shuttle computers with SSD's but i'm not so sure !
Any advice on SSD's? Are they what we need? They dont have to any bigger than 64gb and the software is designed to run as a boot so the computer spec is not of gaming standard!! No i7 extremes please as nice as they would be!!
Space is about enough for two standard atx towers.
Any thoughts and opinions would be much appreciated!
Thanks
Franko
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