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by awda 4425 days ago
Does writes being aligned on page boundaries have anything to do with them being 13 base 2 orders of magnitude smaller than flash erase blocks? An unaligned page means you erase (mostly) one or (very rarely) two flash blocks. An aligned page means you erase one flash block. The biggest amplification is the 1<<13 4k -> 32MB amplification...