Treatise on Formatting FLASH Storage Devices

[quozl at laptop.org]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 12:40:38AM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device
> Read it and weep.

+1

Fixed a couple of typos in the last section.

Also, re:

"Conversely, if the layout is bad, every cluster write might "split" two
pages, forcing the FTL to perform four internal I/O operations instead
of one."

Is it therefore four times slower?

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