On 8/27/2014 11:38 AM, Matt wrote: > I noticed that the Supermicro X9SCL has a USB type-a port right on the > motherboard. > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C202_C204/X9SCL.cfm > > Has anyone used a port like this to boot the core OS and used the > physical drives for OpenVZ and KVM containers? I figure a 64GB thumb > drive would work. Anyone done this or will a USB thumb drive not > stand up too the load? Seems much easier then using a SATA SSD drive > but I imagine you still have to find a more durable USB drive. works great with VMware ESXI, or FreeNAS... neither of those treats the boot device as a read/write file system. FreeNAS does have one master configuration file it updates when you make configuration changes, but no operational data is written to it. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast