I meant your thing works great so good for you !

But to me it sounds harder to maintain than just wake on lan + pxe to reimage the machines before every lan party.

I think it's specifically the fact that they access their disk remotely live that's bothering me.

Why not just image it to the ssd and call it a day ?

Why not do it live? It works!

Well, OK, admittedly in the latest build, I have some stability issues right after boot. But in the worst case the machine reboots once or twice, and then it works. If it doesn't BSOD in the first five minutes then it's good, and everything works every bit as well as if the storage were local.

Whereas reimaging all the machines would actually take more time than waiting for this stability issue to work itself out. And would also require that I install storage in all the machines big enough to hold the main image (currently, they don't have this).

Overall I find it more convenient this way.

Note that the stability issue is specific to my hardware/drivers -- I didn't have any such problem in the Palo Alto house.