SanDisk cheat to increase random SSD write speeds by 100x  Next
Story  Review: Audio Bone 1.0 headphones  So SanDisk has said
they’ve got a technology called ExtremeFFS that will increase
random SSD write speed by like a million percent. Sounds great,
right? So what is it? Well, what they do is take all the stuff
that’s going to be written on the SSD and instead of trickling
it to the disk at the maximum random write rate (very slow
compared to sequential writes), it writes it to “virtual
storage,” assumed to be RAM, and then writes it to the SSD at
the maximum rate it can go.  Wait, did I read that correctly?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this entire “technology” just
a bigger cache? The write speed is not improved at all, it’s
just tricking the OS into thinking it’s writing onto the SSD as
fast as it is writing onto RAM. I guess that kind of makes
sense, but it’s a bit misleading, and seems like it would be
pretty taxing on the RAM.[I stand corrected] The technology does
have some other benefits, howev