On Vi, 21 nov 14, 12:41:35, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > Nowadays disks may hide this in their interface, but on the physical > media (I'm thinking of spinning rusty platters), we still have to obey > the laws of physics. Changing the magnetisation of a single spot is on > neigh-impossible without distorting the surrounding magnetic fields, > so blocks have gaps between them to allow for this. Obviously things > are different on SSDs. As I understand it SSDs have so called "erase blocks", so that similar considerations apply. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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