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[News] Free Software Mode as an Option for SSD Engineers

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Can Open Source Work for SSD Designs?

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| Iâm spending the week at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara. 
| Surprisingly, there were something like 1200 registrations and thereâs a 
| lively crowd at the Summit. Good news for the business climate, I think. The 
| presentations have been excellent and Iâll be sharing several with you over 
| the next few days. First off is a keynote presentation by Michael Cornwell, 
| Lead Technologist for Flash Memory at Sun Microsystems. (By the way, all of 
| Cornwellâs Flash-related projects have names associated with the fictitious 
| superhero Flash Gordon, hence the map of the Planet Mongo over on the right, 
| which Iâve cribbed from Cornwellâs title slide.)        
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http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/310047631.html


Recent:

NILFS: A File System to Make SSDs Scream

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| The 2.6.30 kernel is chock full of next-gen file systems. One such example is
| NILFS, a new log-structured file system that dramatically improves write
| performance.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7345/1.html


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 SSDâs?

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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 â or I guess I should say, in order to be more
| academically respectable, âwe will be forced to rely more on empirical
| measurements leading to educated engineering estimations about what the SSD
| is doing inside the black boxâ. Heh.
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http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/22/should-filesystems-be-optimized-for-ssds/


Geek Sheet: A Tweakerâs 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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