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Old 03-24-2021, 01:06 AM   #54 (permalink)
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This sounds quite surprising to me.
I suggest watchin Linus Tech Tips.
Can confirm. The Winchester drive is more reliable, and uses IMHO a recoverable data structure.

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How Do SSDs Work? - ExtremeTech
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...w-do-ssds-work
Because SSDs write data to pages but erase data in blocks, the amount of data being written to the drive is always larger than the actual update. If you make a change to a 4KB file, for example,...

The Effect Of Data Write Size and Patterns on Solid State ...
https://www.delkin.com/blog/the-effe...e-performance/
Solid State Disk Drives. Spinning mechanical disk drives have one big advantage. They are virtually unaffected by the data transfer size or mode on writes. This is because of the nature of the media. It can be overwritten without any intervening erase. The spots on the media are re-magnetized. Convenient and fast. Not so with Solid State Media.
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