Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Nov 2008 15:33 UTC, submitted by Gregory
It's no secret that SSDs suffer from performance penalties when it comes to small random writes. Even though more modern SSD try to solve some of these issues hardware-wise, software can also play a major role. Instead of resorting to things like delaying all writes until shutdown and storing them in RAM, SanDisk claims it has a better option. At WinHEC yesterday, the company introduced its Extreme FFS, which it claims will improve write performance on SSDs by a factor of 100.
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Well the incompatible performance characteristics have to be overcome somewhere. Be it the microcontroller embedded in a SSD (on FAT devices) or a OS driver (custom FS route).
I guess SANDISK tries to make a bold move to establish a standard facilitating the 2nd route on consumer PCs. Moving the logic out of the devices will make them cheaper to produce and result in some additional cash from IP royalties.