Right Trent, I’m leaning more and more towards a barebone solution. I hope that some are still able to share their experience with the Odroid eMMC solution.
The banana Pi solution is similar to the solution you can build with RPi, external storage, but booting from SD. Problem is that I had bad experience with that as well, in terms of corruption of data.
The performance was never an issue, since both Linux and OpenHab are perfect platforms for optimization.