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Re: What is an animal or an SSD drive? (Was: blah, blah, blah) Android editors

From Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.editors
Subject Re: What is an animal or an SSD drive? (Was: blah, blah, blah) Android editors
Date 2025-04-27 20:39 +1000
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On 5/02/2025 8:25 pm, Arno Welzel wrote:
> Newyana2, 2025-02-03 21:15:

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>> 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".

In a similar feign, might one include a Floppy Disk (remember them??) as
a form of "flash media"?? ;-P
-- 
Daniel70

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Re: What is an animal or an SSD drive? (Was: blah, blah, blah) Android editors Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-04-27 20:39 +1000

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