I am just about to set up my new Linux machine, which will be used to convert analog video and audio to digital video and audio. Is there any reason why I shouldn’t run the system off of a live USB stick (say, a good quality one from Sandisk), that is, without installing Linux on the hard drive and not setting up a boot partition, a system partition, and all that?
If you have the ram for it, you could set it so that on boot it copies everything to ram and then you basically get the best performance at the cost of a few gigs of ram. Though it probably isn’t gonna be that much better than just an ssd.