The Liger provides a standard interface for hard drives through an on-board latching SATA connector that supports six Gigabits-per-second data transfer. Optionally, the Liger can be customized to support a dual SATA connector that is non-latching. In addition, the mSATA and microSD Flash sites support removable rugged flash for applications where program or information storage is needed without the use of rotating hard drives.