I came up with an idea today, and I'm praying somebody beat me to it, so that I can go buy it, but I can't find it. I want drives, say 8 or 16GB, that are the size of my SanDisk Cruzer but rather than USB or ESATA, have a SATA connector on it.
It seems reasonable to me to use these for booting and running OS/swap. No need to remove, because you want them to have same disk identifier for GRUB. What you gain is tons of performance and you still have drive sled room for your storage disks. Even better you can use external/network storage and significantly reduce space usage. SATA uses 8 connectors and USB 4. The question is, can you convert a USB disk to SATA?
By the way... Patent pending. hahahahaha
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Ha, I found it. Brilliant. It is done a little differently, but I think it might serve my purpose.
Newegg.com - Patriot Lite PL64GPEPCSSDR 64GB mini PCIe Internal Solid state disk (SSD) Designed for ASUS EeePC 900, 900A, 901, 900 16G and 1000 only - Solid State Disks
The question now is. When does this drive get detected. Can it be booted from. I'll be reading more on this.