On a sunny day (Fri, 5 Oct 2018 11:07:13 +0200) it happened "A. Dumas"
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>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.

Ah, thank you, of course, now it dawns on me:
They must have, like modern harddisks, a RAM cache!
That would explain the incredible speed, reading from cache.
So a ram-chip and memory chip in one housing.

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