Interesting. I'm surprised that NAND flash chips don't have some kind of hardware assist for this (e.g., really small pages for handling the much smaller checkp

Interesting. I'm surprised that NAND flash chips don't have some kind of hardware assist for this (e.g., really small pages for handling the much smaller checkpoint writes). But I guess at the level of utterly fungible consumer hardware it's about cost rather than reliability, since the latter doesn't have any absolute metrics.