FreeNAS - USB or SSD boot device?

[Gimpymoo]

I understand the "official" advice is to raid USB flash drives but does this come from a time when SSD/HDD prices were too high to use for such small active use?

Does the advice still hold true or with lowering of SSD prices, is using an SSD now viable comapred to temperamental flash drives.

One reason I can see is that "losing" a SATA port can be an issue.

 

[Gimpymoo]

Thanks @bremen1874

My understanding is that there were problems with chipset compatibility with the SSD's, maybe wrong though.

http://www.freenas.org/faq/

 

[Gimpymoo]

I've used USB in enterprise usage before, it's taken 3 years for the USB to fail but we had account meta-data backed up so just reinstalled FreeNAS on a new USB and reimported the accounts. All good!

Good to hear, thanks.

I have got two of these:
https://www.sandisk.com/home/usb-flash/ultra-fit