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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Subject: Re: What is an animal or an SSD drive? (Was: blah, blah, blah) Android editors
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Kenny McCormack, 2025-02-03 14:09:

> In article <m0br40Ff8v9U2@mid.individual.net>,
> Arno Welzel  <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:
> ...
>>> I don't call an SSD a flash media.
>>
>> Why not? SSD *is* flash storage. Just because there is a controller
>> which takes care of wear leveling, the storage technology itself is not
>> different to that of SD cards.
> 
> Chill out, man.
> 
> People often use terminology in idiosyncratic ways.  That doesn't make them
> wrong.  I understand Carlo's frame of reference, and I accept it.  You
> should do likewise.

I was just not sure, if Carlo thinks, that SSD is not flash media but
something different - and that's the reason why it is called "solid
state disk" and not "flash media disk".

JFTR: In the past there were in fact SSDs based on RAM chips with
battery backup - for example the "memory cards" of some pocket computers
or programmable calculators.


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Arno Welzel
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