[yabones]

Same with "real" servers. For a while there, it was trendy to boot ESXi from an SD card stuck to the system board and use all of the 2.5" disks for just data storage, no OS. It worked great... until it didn't. It turns out that writing logs and swap to an SD card roasts it after 2-4 years pretty consistently.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

I wouldn't rule out running the OS off of that kind of storage if you had a read only root file system, but what madness would inspire you to write logs to it? And swap!?

[simoncion]

The smart ESXi admins I knew used Compact Flash cards as the system boot disk. (It has been too long since I've been in touch with those guys to remember if they offloaded logs to local disks (or maybe a datastore on a SAN) or if they also wrote them to the CF device. I bet they did the former, but I no longer clearly remember.)

Using an SD card is just nuts.