[josh.pruim]

For data storage, I wrote a simple program to write to a Git repository that is executed by Inventor when the file is saved, It uses a mapping (On my computers) to Z:\Incoming and Z:\Outgoing, where Incoming contains the current revision of the repository, and Outgoing contains the most recent local commit.
For the drive itself, It will be configured as if it was an internal drive, that Windows was installed to, but then it was removed. It could then be mapped to a virtual machine (If needed), as some VM apps support physical drives alongside VMDK or VDI files.
and for performance, These Macs are most likely not going to be doing the full-bot design, maybe 5-6 parts per assembly at most. The bigger assemblies will be handled on a better machine, but we only have 2 of those, and they aren't portable.