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Intel paints rosy future at Taiwan confab
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| And Tuesday at Computex, Maloney discussed and demoed some of the chips that
| those investments will produce. For example, he gave the first public demo of
| the two-chip Atom-based platform known as Pine Trail, along with a demo of
| version 2.0 of the Linux-based Moblin OS designed for such small form-factor,
| low-power systems.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/02/maloney_at_computex/
SanDisk next-gen SSDs are faster, target netbooks and Linux
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| SanDisk today announced that it has begun shipping its next-generation solid
| state drives for the 12 million-strong netbook market in 8, 16, 32 and 64 GB
| flavors.
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| The drives employ a new technology called nCache, a non-volatile write cache
| capable of supporting burst performance up to five times the steady state
| vRPM2, the company says. nCache improves user responsiveness and helps
| prevent incidence of “stalling” or “shuddering” often seen in first
| generation netbook SSDs, SanDisk says.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=4636
Recent:
SanDisk releases faster netbook solid state disk drives
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| Engineers from SanDisk and Canonical Ltd., creator of the Ubuntu Linux-based
| operating system, have worked together on system optimizations for the Gen2
| pSSD, resulting in improved system responsiveness and longer battery life,
| SanDisk said in a statement.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=knowledge_center&articleId=9133778&taxonomyId=1&intsrc=kc_top
IBM ships SSDs for Power Systems
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| IBM today begins selling its first solid state disks for its Power Systems
| boxes, the machines it uses to attack the Unix, Linux, and OS/400 installed
| bases.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/22/ibm_power_ssds/
Dell Mini 10 Netbook Available with Ubuntu and SSD Option
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| Dell's Mini 10 netbook hasn't been on the market very long, but it has proven
| to be a popular machine for the computer maker. Dell has announced that it
| will now be offering new options on the netbook including an SSD and Ubuntu
| OS.
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http://www.i4u.com/article24659.html
Which operating system is best for solid-state drives?
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| According to Far, Mac OS X runs "a little faster than Vista" with an SSD
| drive, but Linux is "always faster" than Vista or Mac OS X -- to the tune of
| 1% to 2% -- because like Windows 2000, "it never runs anything in the
| background."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=knowledge_center&articleId=9123140&taxonomyId=1&intsrc=kc_top
Linux Solid-State Drive Benchmarks
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| With the number of netbooks on the market continuing to
| increase each month and more of these mobile devices
| switching to solid-state drives for their reliability,
| extended battery life, and faster performance, SSDs are
| becoming quite common and finding themselves meeting many
| Linux hosts. How though does the real-world performance
| differ between hard disk drives and solid-state drives on
| Linux? We have run several tests atop Ubuntu on a Samsung
| netbook with a HDD and SSD. In addition, we have also
| looked at the encryption performance using both types of
| drives.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_ssd_performance&num=1
Related:
Should Filesystems Be Optimized for SSD’s?
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| As long as SSD manufacturers force us treat these devices as black boxes,
| there may be a certain amount of cargo cult science which may be forced upon
| us file system designers — or I guess I should say, in order to be more
| academically respectable, “we will be forced to rely more on empirical
| measurements leading to educated engineering estimations about what the SSD
| is doing inside the black box”. Heh.
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http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/22/should-filesystems-be-optimized-for-ssds/
Geek Sheet: A Tweaker’s Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs)
and Linux
http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9190
If your SSD sucks, blame Vista, says SSD vendor
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/22/sandisk_ssd_vista_beef/
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