I am currently using USB flash drives to boot FreeNAS and vSphere ESXI. I'm looking into replacing those with either 64GB Supermicro DOM's or 250GB SSD's (Crucial MX200).
I'm leaning towards the 64GB DOM as it has 530MB/s reads and 185MB/s writes, and has an endurance rating of 68TB writes. ( http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/SATADOM.cfm )
For about the same price though, I can get a 250GB SSD and, at least with ESXI, partition part of it for boot, and I think the rest of the SSD space can be made available to ESXI for running VM's.
I think for FreeNAS, it's really between a USB flash drive or DOM, but could boot and make use of use USB, DOM, or SSD with ESXI.
Thoughts?
I'm leaning towards the 64GB DOM as it has 530MB/s reads and 185MB/s writes, and has an endurance rating of 68TB writes. ( http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/SATADOM.cfm )
For about the same price though, I can get a 250GB SSD and, at least with ESXI, partition part of it for boot, and I think the rest of the SSD space can be made available to ESXI for running VM's.
I think for FreeNAS, it's really between a USB flash drive or DOM, but could boot and make use of use USB, DOM, or SSD with ESXI.
Thoughts?