Curiously absent from the marketing material associated with Apple’s newest iteration of OS X is any mention of ZFS.

It appears that the Cupertino firm may have bailed on Sun’s enterprise-class Zettabyte File System– a move that is in part responsible for the significant disk footprint reduction offered by OS X 10.6.

Apple has pledged that the newer, leaner Snow Leopard is a refined, but not revolutionary product. After lightening the operating system’s bulk by 6GB, porting the majority of its applications to a 64-bit code base, and punching up the version numbers on a select apps, Apple slapped the kitty on the ass and sent it on its way.

While ZFS may have been told to take a hike, it is apparent that ye olde HFS+ is standing guard to serve the storage whims of Apple’s shiny, happy faithful.

Solid State Disks are poised blow the doors off of traditional storage media. As the inevitable end-game of the great bet on flash memory, they are coming in strengthening numbers to obliterate benchmarks, make or break companies, and free-fall in price. The revolution this nascent market is set to unleash will leave few questions as it makes a staggering rise to preeminence.

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