On 05-10-18 08:39, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (04 Oct 2018 20:48:26 GMT) A. Dumas wrote:
>> Haven't seen sdcard-sized ssd's, yet, but haven't looked either. I do know
>> there's this, supposedly it's ssd-technique in a usb stick, 128 GB version
>> of which can be had here for €60 inc. tax:
>> https://www.sandisk.com/home/usb-flash/extremepro-usb
>
> Excuse my ignorance,
> but what is the difference between that thing and a large USB stick,
> apart from the marketing hype 'SSD'?
> You can just mount it in the same way I suppose?
>
> Different controller for random access?
> But then the filesystem rules?

That's why I wrote "supposedly" and "ssd-technique." I don't know
either, and the Sandisk page has no details :( Quoted speeds indicate
that it's probably not "normal" flash, though; or, like you say, it
might have a different controller.

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