In a perfect world I would have a low cost, RAID 5 / 6 solid state NAS on a 10 GB network and simply have diskless, remote IPL machines.
But we are far from a perfect world. You can go for combo PCI express / NAND devices that give you transfer rates around 700 MB/sec (e.g.
http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/info/A...1RVDX220/1774/) - so that's crazy performance! My issue is that I don't want to install Win7 + all the software again, and haven't played with Ghost when you are trying to clone a mostly empty 2T HDD onto a 256GB SSD