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| 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 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vul1gh$kgep$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 5/02/2025 8:25 pm, Arno Welzel wrote: > Newyana2, 2025-02-03 21:15: <Snip> >> 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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