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by tliltocatl 109 days ago
Trim might be an illusion, but block erase is very real, even through it's not exposed as a device command. What I'm trying to tell, writes are scrambled but erases (not trim which marks a logical block as collectable, but physical erase that makes a physical block writable) aren't as they happen over several megabytes at once with no way to control individual bits.
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Oh yes you’re right, I did neglect physical block erase which does happen outside the data path.