Typical SSDs all assume your IO will be in 4kB-aligned chunks even though the storage is denominated in 512-byte sectors for compatibility reasons. So we have m

Typical SSDs all assume your IO will be in 4kB-aligned chunks even though the storage is denominated in 512-byte sectors for compatibility reasons. So we have managed to move past the legacy of early hard drives to some degree, and are now being held back by assumptions that derive more from x86 page sizes.