Tim Cook wrote:
While I'm sure to offend someone, it must be stated. That's not going
to happen for the simple fact that there's all of two vendors that
could utilize it, both niche (in relative terms). NetApp and Sun.
Why would SSD MFG's waste their time building drives to sell for less
money than their mainline that a very, very small portion of the
market can actually utilize?
Until you convince Hitachi, EMC, HP, IBM, and Microsoft to develop
similar "intelligent" filesystems, the SSD's you're recommending won't
see the light of day (unless Sun/NetApp decide to make it themselves).
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--Tim
I do think the market is slight larger: Hitachi and EMC storage
arrays/big SAN controllers, plus all Linux boxes once Brtfs actually
matures enough to be usable. I don't see MSFT making any NTFS changes
to help here, but they are doing some research/development on a next-gen
filesystem (didn't make it into Windows 2008, but maybe Win2011), so
we'll have to see what that entails.
All that said, it would certainly be limited to Enterprise SSD, which,
are low-volume. But, on the up side, they're High Margin, so maybe we
can hope...
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Erik Trimble
Java System Support
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Santa Clara, CA
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