Re:Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype
by penagwin on Thursday September 05, 2019 @05:23PM
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I'm really not sure about your first point.
> A cross-platform filesystem that you could read/write from Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android etc.
Fat32? There's plenty of newer file systems, for the most part if they aren't cross-platform by default then either the vendor has their own solution (Apple) or your system is fairly modular by design (linux).
> Imagine having a single disk that could boot any computer operating system without having to manage partitions and boot records!
The BIOS/UEFI Still needs to know what to boot, so the drive must be partitioned somehow. You'll want to store that data somewhere, and now you have a boot record.
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I'm not these drives solve either of those issues. Now the other ones you mentioned, those I agree with.
> A cross-platform filesystem that you could read/write from Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android etc.
Fat32? There's plenty of newer file systems, for the most part if they aren't cross-platform by default then either the vendor has their own solution (Apple) or your system is fairly modular by design (linux).
> Imagine having a single disk that could boot any computer operating system without having to manage partitions and boot records!
The BIOS/UEFI Still needs to know what to boot, so the drive must be partitioned somehow. You'll want to store that data somewhere, and now you have a boot record.
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I'm not these drives solve either of those issues. Now the other ones you mentioned, those I agree with.