Wouldn’t dream of running a digital mixing system without a UPS, they are dirt cheap and buy a ton of security.
Hard drive wise my vote again is for the SSD Small ones are relatively cheap these days and you can always transfer the files to a mass storage drive back at the office. Another consideration is if the recordings are that important you need to be running a backup system as well, so Dante into a Gigabit switch feeding two machines, or better still take the redundant Dante stream to a second machine, though simple switches do seem pretty reliable, also feed power to your switch from the UPS as well.
Just my five pennyworth.
Ian B.
