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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...

-- 
?The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that 
the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

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