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minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoNo, Micro/SD-cards have a very simple controller (no wear leveling, trim) and thus need no heat spreader. This one would need one.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoIt’s a little weird that wear leveling isn’t handled at the software level, given that you can surely pick free sectors randomly. Random access is nearly free. So is idle CPU time.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoSSD still simulate HDD, because OS would need to adapt otherwise, lol.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoDefragging wasn’t handled in hardware. The OS is free to frag it up.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoYep, defragmenting still did help with NTFS even on SSD, until MS made it a daemon in Windows 10.
No, Micro/SD-cards have a very simple controller (no wear leveling, trim) and thus need no heat spreader. This one would need one.
It’s a little weird that wear leveling isn’t handled at the software level, given that you can surely pick free sectors randomly. Random access is nearly free. So is idle CPU time.
SSD still simulate HDD, because OS would need to adapt otherwise, lol.
Defragging wasn’t handled in hardware. The OS is free to frag it up.
Yep, defragmenting still did help with NTFS even on SSD, until MS made it a daemon in Windows 10.