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sandisk.com - 11/6/2008

SanDisk introduces ExtremeFFS

— sandisk.com — SanDisk Also Proposes Two Metrics for End-Users to Measure Performance and Endurance: virtualRPM (vRPM) and Long-Term Data... Endurance (LDE) LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, Nov. 5, 2008 SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today unveiled an advanced flash file ... (more) SanDisk introduces ExtremeFFS

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dragonsteelmods.com - 11/12/2008

TuneClone Audio Converter Software

— dragonsteelmods.com — iTunes has invaded pretty much all musical use on the computer anymore, people who don't really know... much about computers hear about iTunes and assume that's what they're supposed to use for their music on their computers. Case in point, a friend of ... (more) TuneClone Audio Converter Software

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SanDisk to launch ExtremeFFS
Fudzilla — ... cells. Lastly but not least, ExtremeFFS can learn usage patterns which allows for data that is used more often to be stored in quickly accessible locations. On top of this, SanDisk has also introduced LDE (Long-term Data Endurance) and vRPM (virtual Revolutions Per Minute) which both are ways to test SSD drives. The first is a reliability measurement and the second is a performance comparison test against traditional hard drives. You can find the press release with more details here

SanDisk announces ExtremeFFS for "100 times faster" SSD write speeds
Engadget — Filed under: StorageSSDs will apparently get a serious (extreme, if you will) upgrade in the coming year, with SanDisk's announcement of a new technology dubbed ExtremeFFS (Flash File System). It is, as you can possibly guess, a new file system, but it'll use page-based methods so that the data's location on the drive won't be tied to its physical space, as it is now. SanDisk says this means that random write speeds are going to be 100 times faster than they are on drives using current technology. The company hopes that this advance, coupled with other ...