Re: Next year will see 100GB SSD cheap as chips, but why does Linux need to format an SSD?

From	7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com>
Subject	Re: Next year will see 100GB SSD cheap as chips, but why does Linux need to format an SSD?
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Date	2012-03-22 20:16 +0000

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unruh wrote:

> On 2012-03-22, 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com>
> wrote:
>> Next year will see 100GB SSD cheap as chips, but why does Linux need to
>> format an SSD?
>> 
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>>
>> Looking around at prices and advances in technology,
>> next year will see sub 20nm SSD manufacturing and
>> 100GB SSDs costing $50 or thereabouts.
>>
>> What to do with all that computing power?
>>
>> Excuse us, one thing that is bugging me this moment.
>> Who says Linux had to format an SSD and why???????????
> 
> Any storage medium needs formatting,

Does anyone format RAM?

> since each filessytem type stores
> information in different ways on the medium. And you sure would not want
> to use FAT with all its limitations as a universal filesystem.

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Next year will see 100GB SSD cheap as chips, but why does Linux need to format an SSD? 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-03-22 19:29 +0000
  Re: Next year will see 100GB SSD cheap as chips, but why does Linux need to format an SSD? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2012-03-22 20:14 +0000
    Re: Next year will see 100GB SSD cheap as chips, but why does Linux need to format an SSD? 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-03-22 20:16 +0000
      Re: Next year will see 100GB SSD cheap as chips, but why does Linux need to format an SSD? Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2012-03-22 21:31 +0100
        Re: Next year will see 100GB SSD cheap as chips, but why does Linux need to format an SSD? 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-03-22 20:43 +0000
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