XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: daniel47@eternal-september.org   
      
   On 5/02/2025 8:25 pm, Arno Welzel wrote:   
   > Newyana2, 2025-02-03 21:15:   
      
      
      
   >> Lawrence just spends his days trying to one-up other people,   
   >> especially with tech trivia. Why do you let him?   
   >>   
   >> SSD is unambiguous. Like you, I don't call it a flash drive. I   
   >> don't call anything flash. There are USB sticks, SSDs and SD   
   >> cards. The type of data strorage they use is not a practical   
   >> concern. Those terms are specific in terms of IDing the item.   
   >   
   > Well - it was not about not calling SSD "flash media". The origin of   
   >  this discussion was this sentence by Carlos:   
   >   
   > "Also I *never* edit a file residing in flash storage."   
   >   
   > And "flash storage" or "flash memory" is the name for a storage   
   > technology. SSD is "flash storage" as well as USB sticks or SD cards,   
   > because all these media use the same basic technology, just with   
   > different detail implementations like wear leveling etc..   
   >   
   > Also see:  and the   
   > sources referred there.   
   >   
   > Of course you can always decide to only call an SD card "flash media"   
   > and anything else working with the same technology "SSD" and "USB   
   > stick" depending on what you use exactly. But using technical terms   
   > this way makes any discussion about technology quite difficoult -   
   > because then you always need to know, that a person understands as   
   > "flash media". One might see only SD cards as "flash media" while   
   > another one would call a USB stick as "flash media".   
      
   In a similar feign, might one include a Floppy Disk (remember them??) as   
   a form of "flash media"?? ;-P   
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   Daniel70   
      
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