Summary of the week of November 30, 2020

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Paragon's NTFS driver goes to the kernel

Paragon's driver for Microsoft's file system is the best implementation available right now for Linux. Until now, it has been closed-source but it will soon be incorporated into the Linux kernel.

OpenZFS 2.0 available

One of the most popular file systems in NAS has a new version. One of the novelties is the inclusion of the ZStandard compression system, which offers a compression ratio similar to GZip with much better performance. In addition, from now on both Linux and FreeBSD will use the same code.

Different components in the same SSD models

It seems to have become common for manufacturers to change the internal components of SSD drives without changing the product model. Perhaps the most egregious case is that of ADATA with its 1TB XPG SX8200 Pro, in which, review after review, the drives have become slower and less efficient.

About the security flaw of Apple's Wifi

A security expert has explained how a security flaw in the Wifi of iPhones is one of the most dangerous he has seen, as it was possible to obtain data from the internal memory without the user knowing.

AMD A6 9220e

Someone has brought us what is probably the slowest micro we have in AVX2 mode. Of course, it is an Excavator that also has a TDP of 6W. It appeared in June 2017, when the Zens were just coming out of the oven. It is a portable CPU with two cores and no SMT. Its multi-core performance barely improves the single-core. It is far from entering the single-thread ranking and is light years away from achieving the 100th position in multi-thread. Of the 4 Excavators we have, it remains in last and second-to-last position according to the test.

Zen 3 is affected by Spectre mitigation

Specifically, the 5600X suffers a 7% performance reduction when the security flaw solution is activated.

Ryzen 5 3600X

Someone has brought us this Zen 2 with 6 cores, SMT and a TDP of 95W. The most similar processor is the 3600 without the X. In single-thread it looks a lot like the Ryzen 9 3900, the 3800X and the 3700X. It is in position 18 of the general ranking and of the 10 Zen 2 we have, it is in seventh position.