Sort of. Random writes are fine as long as they are as large as the physical write block size (not the virtual 512b or 4k) and there's a queue depth high enoug

Sort of. Random writes are fine as long as they are as large as the physical write block size (not the virtual 512b or 4k) and there's a queue depth high enough to keep the drive busy. Unless you are lucky enough to have Intel's (no longer made) Optanes that give nearly 100% of performance with low queue depths. This avoids the ugly read/modify/write, as well as much of the behind the scenes magic for minimizing write amplification and shuffling blocks around.