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Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> writes:
> but I think most NAND flashes still are 512 bytes

NAND flash pages are much larger than that, like 64k or larger,
depending on the part.  Good SSD's have less write amplification (=
ratio of page size to block size) and will juggle blocks around behind
the scenes, but devices like SD cards are of little help for that.
There are file systems like F2FS (Linux) and an embedded one that I'm
forgetting, that are designed to work well with flash.  The Forth BLOCK
words aren't quite the right thing, as Anton says.  But, there are other
media like FRAM that are a lot better.  It will be interesting to see if
Optane makes it down to the small embedded level.