On Mi, 26 iun 13, 10:27:53, Arun Khan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:32 AM, David Christensen > <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > > If you can figure out how to boot from USB and run from RAM, then omitting a > > system drive could work. Otherwise, USB drives were never intended to be > > system drives. You want an SSD. ... > IMO, given the price points of SSD v/s USB pen drives [a], SSD is an > overkill for the average user. > > [a] SSDs are not cheap in India whereas a branded 4GB pen drive is > less than USD 4.
I'll second this. Assuming you are running stable on the file server the most writes will happen on security updates. I've successfully used cheap USB sticks for that without issues. Also, given the storage available to you keeping a full image around and restoring to another stick is very easy. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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