"Has up to two boot/two user partitions"
Wow. This SSD allows you to use the first sector as a partition table.
I wonder how they would prevent you from doing this?
Flash chips for flash cars: SanDisk dives under your bonnet
SanDisk has made its flash products car-friendly, devising SD cards and embedded flash drives (EFD) that auto-makers can stuff into their infotainment systems. The iNAND embedded flash drives store up to 64GB of data, not much by data centre standards, and the little beggars should cope with rough driving conditions better …
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Monday 2nd February 2015 17:46 GMT Charles Manning
Not really under the bonnet
More likely under the dashboard which is a far more benign environment for electronics.
Of course none of this file system stuff is actually used in anything that is actually involved in controlling the engine, brakes or such - it is only used in the "soft" stuff like infotainment. These days top-end vehicles might have over 150 micros in them, but most of those will be running small bodies of code of 5000 lines or less.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
