Sandisk speeds up SSD

By Stewart Meagher
09:48 Nov 7, 2008 | 10 Comments
Tags: Sandisk | speeds | up | SSD

FFS... that's fast!

Sandisk has announced that it can make Solid State Drives work up to 100 times faster than is currently possible.

The company's new Flash File System (FFS... yes we know... stop sniggering back there) will ship with devices in early 2009.

Extreme FFS operates on a page-based algorithm, which, according to Sandisk's boffins, means there is no fixed coupling between the physical and logical location of data. When a sector of data is written, the SSD puts it where it is most convenient and efficient. The result is an improvement in random write performance – theoretically by up to 100 times – as well as in overall endurance.

The system also learns user patterns and, over time, will know where to park frequently-used chunks of data.

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10 Comments

R4nd0M Nov 7, 2008 3:48 PM	Does this have a positive effect on SSD lifetimes?
Hawkeye Nov 7, 2008 4:05 PM	I would hazard a guess that it would, but that's only a guess.
bu14-1 Nov 7, 2008 4:07 PM	Wow.
Trekker Nov 7, 2008 5:35 PM	this is the next step but it would take a bit to replace 5 hard drives with around 3 tb of space :)
AMD AKIMBO Nov 7, 2008 6:40 PM	all on sata 3.0 ? my question is: do we need a certain chipset for this feture ?
Hawkeye Nov 7, 2008 6:53 PM	Ifi t's early 2009, I would - again, guessing, say no. But this seems to really interest some folks, so I'll see what we can dig up in the office.
Athiril Nov 7, 2008 7:24 PM	Will this make my e-penis bigger?
Hawkeye Nov 7, 2008 7:46 PM	Only if you're feeling sonic-breasts delivered via your new SSD.
SceptreCore Nov 8, 2008 4:50 PM	Wow... 100x faster ay! We'd need optical to take advantage of that I reckons.
MrPodgy Nov 11, 2008 12:07 AM	oh yeah netstorage even faster for lans and whatnot (ie replace the whole of the internets with SSD FTW!!!)

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