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It's actually quite amusing how modern OSes can abstract, speed up and hide away those things that are still slow even on nowadays hardware.
by akotti 9mo ago
It's actually quite amusing how modern OSes can abstract, speed up and hide away those things that are still slow even on nowadays hardware.
- chemodax 9mo agoAs far I remember NAND/NOR memory (used for SSD) is very slow to *erase*. The erase operation can be performed only by big chunks, requires higher voltage etc. SSD vendors circumvent this by adding several layers of write buffers to achieve good test results.