back to article Racerunner SSDs tap Exar dedupe tech

It had to happen: WhipTail has worked out you'll get more data in an SSD if you compress it, and the company is working with Exar to do exactky this. WhipTail is going to integrate Exar’s Hifn BitWackr hardware deduplication and compression product into its solid state drive (SSD) appliances. With this addition of …

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  1. sT0rNG b4R3 duRiD
    WTF?

    I wonder when...

    my SSD microcontroller will actually trump my netbook cpu in terms of raw grunt.

  2. Anton Ivanov

    Re: I wonder when..

    It will not...

    Unless you want the bit where the SSD is housed to burn a hole in your pants.

    TANSTAAFL. There ain't such thing as a free lunch. Or CPU cycle for that matter.

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