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This article is completely accurate - there's nothing new or innotivative about fusion drive when compared to what was in the market years ago- it's pure market

by _lex 14y ago

This article is completely accurate - there's nothing new or innotivative about fusion drive when compared to what was in the market years ago- it's pure marketing. I know the anti apple tone of the article made it seem unfairly biased, but it's totally correct in this case.

lloeki 14y ago
> This article is completely accurate - there's nothing new or innotivative about fusion drive when compared to what was in the market years ago- it's pure marketing. Pardon me but it's the first time ever I heard about tiered storage (not caching hybrids which is handled by the drives themselves) being available outside of datacenters. Doesn't explain the +250$ price. Besides, the whole tone of the article is full of useless hatred. The point could have been made without such aggressiveness. What's more, the proposed solution is ludicrous: - buy an external SSD - install OSX on it - wipe the internal disk - manually manage files/applications/whatnot to be stored on the SSD or the disk. I can't even begin to describe how such a scheme is brittle and contrived. Can we stop pretending everyone out there is technically inclined? To us technical folks who know how to actually build the CoreStorage tiered array, 250$ may look like a steep price, but to the huge amount of real people out there, the convenience is well worth 250$, and for those it's not worth, well they'd stay with a spinner anyway.
- Leynos 14y ago
  Motherboards with a slot for a cache SSD have been available for quite some time. See, for example, http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Intel-Smart-Response-Technology-SSD-Caching-Z68-Tested/Boot-Option-ROM-Boot-Performa http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Intel-Smart-Response-Te...
  - weiran 14y ago
    Did you completely ignore the comment you replied to? Fusion drive aka tiered storage is not a cache.
    - Leynos 14y ago
      Truth be told, I wasn't aware of the difference. I am now.
dmishe 14y ago
You probably think it is just a cached hdd like momentus right

by _lex 14y ago

lloeki 14y ago

> This article is completely accurate - there's nothing new or innotivative about fusion drive when compared to what was in the market years ago- it's pure marketing. Pardon me but it's the first time ever I heard about tiered storage (not caching hybrids which is handled by the drives themselves) being available outside of datacenters. Doesn't explain the +250$ price. Besides, the whole tone of the article is full of useless hatred. The point could have been made without such aggressiveness. What's more, the proposed solution is ludicrous: - buy an external SSD - install OSX on it - wipe the internal disk - manually manage files/applications/whatnot to be stored on the SSD or the disk. I can't even begin to describe how such a scheme is brittle and contrived. Can we stop pretending everyone out there is technically inclined? To us technical folks who know how to actually build the CoreStorage tiered array, 250$ may look like a steep price, but to the huge amount of real people out there, the convenience is well worth 250$, and for those it's not worth, well they'd stay with a spinner anyway.

Leynos 14y ago
Motherboards with a slot for a cache SSD have been available for quite some time. See, for example, http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Intel-Smart-Response-Technology-SSD-Caching-Z68-Tested/Boot-Option-ROM-Boot-Performa http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Intel-Smart-Response-Te...
- weiran 14y ago
  Did you completely ignore the comment you replied to? Fusion drive aka tiered storage is not a cache.
  - Leynos 14y ago
    Truth be told, I wasn't aware of the difference. I am now.

dmishe 14y ago

You probably think it is just a cached hdd like momentus right