A few options on the computer front would be to have the system built in to a rackmount case instead of a standard case.
As for laptop storage, you can always purchase an external drive enclosure and put whatever size you want in it for storage.
Using as an example, Pioneer 001 totals 18 songs for 68mb sampled at 128bps.
Using the above you can figure:
- 100 discs = roughly 6.8Gb drive space
- 500 discs = roughly 34Gb (9000 songs)
- 1000 discs = roughly 68Gb (18000 songs)
So, roughly 30000 songs to a 120Gb drive.
Again, these are just rough estimates, especially since not all discs have the same number of songs and such.
What I'm getting to is this. You can purchase an external enclosure for around $40 (taken at the time of writting from a well known online source), Put in say a 120gb drive for starters for around $90, then later on if you need to increase storage, just pop out the 120Gb and pop in say a 200.
And they also make enclosures that allows up to 4 drives in one USB enclosure which can be rack mounted.