ExtremeFFS from Sandisk: magic? Posted on 06/11/2008 at 17:15 by Marc
While Windows 7 is supposed to bring an improved management of SSDs and the UBISF file system designed for Flash hardware has already been integrated into the most recent versions of the Linux kernel, Sandisk has today announced ExtremeFFS, a supposedly revolutionary file system to come out in 2009.
Sandisk is announcing levels of performance up to 100 times existing systems for random write speeds, as well as an uncoupling of physical and logical processes to better place data. In addition, ExtremeFFS should be able to analyse how the SSD is used so as to organize the data for maximum acces speed.
This may all seem pretty on paper, but in fact ExtremeFFS does no more no less than current SSDs with high performance controlers, but does it using software rather than hardware. Placing the system upstream does of course have advantages in terms of cost, in particular for systems requiring a high degree of integration, but in terms of our PCs, the solution is likely to be of very limited interest.
While Windows 7 is supposed to bring an improved management of SSDs and the UBISF file system designed for Flash hardware has already been integrated into the most recent versions of the Linux kernel, Sandisk has today announced ExtremeFFS, a supposedly revolutionary file system to come out in 2009.