From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 10/12/2025 13:13, Daniel James wrote:   
   > On 09/12/2025 19:07, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >> These might as well be EEprom really! What else is an SD card?   
   >   
   > An EEPROM is can be written/erased one byte at a time.   
   >   
   > An SD card uses flash memory that can only be written in blocks, and can   
   > only be erased in pages (which are typically larger than write-blocks).   
   >   
   > Flash is typically many times cheaper than EEPROM, byte for byte, and   
   > its block-structured nature is well suited for mass storage applications   
   > whose filesystems are block-oriented anyway.   
   >   
   What I meant was that (tongue in cheek) the functionality was identical.   
   User reprogrammable non volatile storage   
      
   Mind you that goes for HD/SSDs as well...   
      
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