| From: Javier Perez <pepebuho(a)gmail.com>
| I know, but I wanted the famous speed a SSD/flash system is supposed to
| give for the OS. Specially given that it is an old system.
I could be wrong, but I think
- most USB sticks are quite slow.
- USB2 sticks are guaranteed to be slow-ish
- USB sticks seem to have low reliability. The seem to be designed
for a different usage pattern (not continuous).
- I've had trouble booting from USB3 sticks in USB3 ports. I think
that some BIOSes are not ready for this.
- USB sticks are easy to knock because they stick out of the port
On the other hand, once the server has gotten through startup
- for many server applications, access to things that would live on a
USB stick are such that RAM caching makes the performance less
important.