Hey Luis,
The wear and tear should be quite considerable I think, given the way our dbengine works (right @Markos_Fountoulakis?).
I would love to see your project in action. Perhaps you would find useful the quickstart project I created a while ago on how to use Consul for dynamic configuration management of any number of Netdata Agents ( I want to create a video one of these days).
Also for the OS, you may want to try something more lightweight, like Raspbian lite or balena.io. The second one allows easy management of the device and deployment using containers.
I say we start working on this and use this topic and help you along the way!