Disk Options for Oracle VM server

We are looking to purchase some new server hardware to run OVM 3.x Servers on. We know from the installation the disk space required on these boxes is only 4G.
We have been looking at Oracle Servers mainly to be fully supported running OVM Server 3.0.x. The base server disk options would be 2 300G 10,000 RPM drives with a HBA controller to run those disks. RAID 01 them to be protected from one drive crashing. Total Price tag with the controller is about $4000.
Another option we were looking at is to run some flash card (it appears even Oracle sells a 4G option) but we are not sure how these cards might install into the server. We found some larger 50G PCI type cards from another vendor which might make us feel better than having a production system run on a USB stick ;)
We can not find any pictures of these Oracle Flash cards, so we don't quite yet understand how they would plug in and are just assuming its USB.
The part # is RA-S-4G2-USB2
I wanted to know other people's opinion on the topic. What are others doing for disks inside of the Oracle VM storage which is just used to hold the JeOS. It seems any spinning hard drive RAIDED is a complete waste with the sizes of the disks now.
Avi, you might know what is actually supported by Oracle VM?
Thanks for any insights.

Avi Miller wrote:
>
Just buy $10 4GB USB sticks, in my opinion. You can buy 20 of them and still save lots and lots of money. Redundancy right there. :)Would you run a mission critical Production database on a cheap $10 USB stick?
If the USB stick goes down for whatever reason and you have a spare on the shelf, the OVM server still goes down, and therefore any Guests (including our Production database) would go down. I know High Availability should move the VMs running to another machine. But that will only work if I have enough memory capacity for this guest. The main guest I am concerned about is 128G of RAM. I will probably not have space to move it without making a change.
We are shooting for 100% uptime and therefore a simple USB stick creates a lot of hesitation. Any more Enterprise level solutions besides the disks?

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