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Samsung and Microsoft optimise the performance of SSD

By jwa. Original by Lionel - 11/08/2008 15:46:30 CEST - Category: Hard Drive - Source: Computerworld
Last month, Sandisk made quite a stir when they announced that Windows Vista is not optimised for SSD, thus it does not provide the best performance.
We learned today that Samsung will be in the process of working with Microsoft so as to improve the performance of these disks in Vista.
The goal will be to provide drivers adapted to the different functioning of these disks. The main difference lies with the sector size: 4 KB for SSD versus 512 for hard drives. But this is not a simple flx as the instructions for writing to disks is in a very low level of the system.
Apple could escape from these problems thanks to the forthcoming adoption of ZFS which we've been waiting for quite a while.
Indeed, the writing system for ZFS already contains specific optimisations for SSD, as well as the size of blocks it writes that, in the management of memory cells, reduce fragmentation to further accelerate disk access.
If the rumour is not wrong this time, ZFS should be one of the new features of Snow Leopard.
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