Mac ZFS is dead

Ding, dong. PC file system progress took a giant step back this week with the news on MacOSforge that Apple’s ZFS project has been discontinued. ZFS Project Shutdown 2009-10-23 The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be...

Optical nearing the end of the line

TDK recently demo’d an impressive technical achievement: a 10 layer optical disk with 320 GB capacity – using standard Blu-ray (BD) drive technology. Each layer has better than 90% light transmission and writing required no more than 20 mW of the 30 mW Blu-ray...