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Samsung Working With Apple To Optimise Solid State Drive Performance In Snow Leopard
Posted by Matt Hickey at 12:30 PM on August 9, 2008
Samsung has been pioneering efforts to improve performance of SSDs in operating systems, working with Apple to integrate ZFS reading and writing to the next version of OSX Server. This means a 128-bit file system with faster data throughput and lots of other fun things that make servers run better. This also means Apple is taking SSD technology seriously, as it has already dropped the price of the SSD upgrade for the MacBook Air—the only current MacBook to ship with an SSD option—to US$599 from US$999. We likely won't see SSDs across the MacBook lines yet, but this means it could be in the cards. [MacRumors]
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DeadWriter
Posted 1:07 PM 9/8/08
Just because the I'd will work with ZFS, it doesn't mean that it is best suited for all storage pools. A single laptop drive will loose considerable space by being formatted in ZFS.
I am pro ZFS, but it isn't the best tool for all jobs. That said, I will likely change my primary drive format to ZFS, as I work with large data pools.
DeadWriter
banned4life
Posted 1:01 PM 9/8/08
They're doing the same thing with MSFT:
[www.pcworld.com]
banned4life
KRingg
Posted 1:40 PM 9/8/08
1) Sweetness... are we [finally] closing in on the end of mechanical devices in PCs?
b) Common Giz, stop the Apple favoritism... this is a universal progression. [banned4life]
iii) It's about time for HFS to take it's final bows, thumbs up Apple.
KRingg