user manager rb1100hx2 vs vmware

i have 2 installations with user manager at rb951ui-2hnd and rb1100hx2.
the problem rarely is that database is getting corrupted and users cannot access internet. i dont know if its power outage or something else.
also small storage size 128mb. i know i can use a usb flash drive or an sd card.
i will have a new installation and i have to choose between rb1100hx2 with SD card or a “intel i3 pc with ssd” with windows,vmware running ros.
the good thing about vmware is that you can take snapshots, and also have a secondry storage disk 1gb for example for user manager database.

Feel free to reply in which hardware you install your user manager!

Side note: never use internal flash storage of a device as working disk for dude or user manager database or for logging. You will wear it soon and device will start to make errors.

thanx for the tip jarda.
propably i will go for RB1100AHx2 as RB1100AHx4 does not support user manager.