[CentOS] USB Boot

[Matt]

>> 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.
>

Hmm, my CentOS install is still do some log file writing.  Most of the
traffic is on /vz though.  Wander how much a USB thumb drive can take?
 Know of any better ones?