Comments on: Means, Motive & Opportunity: Apple Kills the Media Center PC

By: ZFS als Basis für Apples iTV auf maol Jeopardy!

ZFS als Basis für Apples iTV auf maol Jeopardy! — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:11:11 +0000

[...] und in MacOS X integriert. StorageMojo hat auch gleich eine Erklärung dafür: Means, Motive & Opportunity: Apple Kills the Media Center PC). Steve Jobs has two questions. First, how can I sell more online content and equipment to play it? [...]

By: Robin Harris

Robin Harris — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:22:44 +0000

H: it won’t take much to meet the needs of ZFS for storage. – more later

UAdmin: I understood the context of your comments – and I thought what you wrote was worth being seen by my audience. Yet when you are comparing various command lines for simplicity, you are illustrating my point: without a crass commercial motive, ZFS isn’t all that compelling.

Cheers,

Robin

By: uadmin

uadmin — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:29:09 +0000

Thanks for the link StorageMojo, though it would be nice you took my pape in context, I wasn’t comparing HFS+ to ZFS, but the way typical users store data. And why they would want to use ZFS.

You can find the rest of my comments at http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/09/hfs-journalized-vs-zfs.html

By: hmurchison

hmurchison — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:16:27 +0000

Robin

I think iTV will likely be the companion product for an iserver. I’m kind of viewing the iTV as simply a media extender for what is going to become the Apple strategy for Media centers. A Mothership/Satellite affair that will have us connecting a iLife infused storage box (hopefully running ZFS) to store our media and the iTV product will simply be the connecting device to multiple monitors in the home.

Hopefully the iTV product is extensible in some ways so that we can insure they are up to today’s networking technologies. I noticed that Jobs said 802.11 wireless networking is included. The mere fact that he did not mention whether it was “g” or “a” or even “n” leads me to beleive that we’re going to see changes there by MWSF 2007.

ZFS makes sense from a RAS and pricing standpoint. Why encumber the computer with a hardware controller when we’ll have 4-core Intel CPUs in our computers potentially by year end and certainly by mid 2007. Less components means cheaper pricing and more reliability. I’m all for that. ZFS would be an ideal way to accomplish said goals but we still need that storage product that ties it all together. Perhaps Apple should license the Zetera SoIP product and consider powerline networking options as well.

This revolution “will” be televised. HM out.