“Intel is promising availability of 3D Xpoint non-volatile memory (NVM) this year, at least in their Optane SSDs,” Robin Harris reports for ZDNet. “That has led some to speculate that MacBooks, most of which already use the super fast NVMe interface, will jump to Optane SSDs in the next year.”
Harris reports, “Here’s why it won’t happen.”
“After a brief flirtation with the 21st century ZFS file system, the Mac OS file system team has continued to patch HFS+, a relic of 80s, and whose design bears a strong resemblence to the RT-11 file system from 1970,” Harris reports. “Unlike Microsoft, who has done much to modernize NTFS under the hood, Apple has been content to bake HFS+ into ever more services, making updating the Mac storage stack even more difficult.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Ah, we remember dreaming of ZFS, at least, for Mac OS X way back when, but, alas, such dreams have long since been filed under “pipe.” Looking forward to WWDC, as always!
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