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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Look up "wear leveling" for flash memory. This is done at a very low level. The memory device has no knowledge of its partitioning and after a few writes, the mapping of logical sector number to actual device location becomes spaghetti. That is why "defragmenting" a flash memory device is a bad idea.
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Hm. I know about wear leveling, putting parts of files wherever it wants to. Does it go so far that it internally even splinters partitions and scatters them on the entire drive, while still presenting a continuous partition to the operating system?
If so, that's very cool, and something I didn't know. I stand corrected.