I see, thanks; I haven't had a chance to watch the Keynote yet.
Do you know how difficult it would be to set up something comparable using two drives (HDD+SSD) under, say, Ubuntu?
Do you know how difficult it would be to set up something comparable using two drives (HDD+SSD) under, say, Ubuntu?
"Fusion Drive" provides the union of space.
They are in the same vein of "hide the slowness of rotational media" but that is a pretty huge vein.
That's just a 4% increase in space that the Fusion Drive gives you over what a cache would give you. You can call it whatever you want, but I'm going to call them similar.