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Newyana2, 2025-02-03 21:15:

> On 2/3/2025 8:34 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> 
>>
>> This minute, I do not know how to name SSDs. I'm confused.
>>
> 
>    Lawrence just spends his days trying to one-up other people,
> especially with tech trivia. Why do you let him?
> 
>     SSD is unambiguous. Like you, I
> don't call it a flash drive. I don't call anything flash. There
> are USB sticks, SSDs and SD cards. The type of data strorage
> they use is not a practical concern. Those terms are specific
> in terms of IDing the item.

Well - it was not about not calling SSD "flash media". The origin of
this discussion was this sentence by Carlos:

"Also I *never* edit a file residing in flash storage."

And "flash storage" or "flash memory" is the name for a storage
technology. SSD is "flash storage" as well as USB sticks or SD cards,
because all these media use the same basic technology, just with
different detail implementations like wear leveling etc..

Also see: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory> and the sources
referred there.

Of course you can always decide to only call an SD card "flash media"
and anything else working with the same technology "SSD" and "USB stick"
depending on what you use exactly. But using technical terms this way
makes any discussion about technology quite difficoult - because then
you always need to know, that a person understands as "flash media". One
might see only SD cards as "flash media" while another one would call a
USB stick as "flash media".


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Arno Welzel
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