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Originally Posted by igorsk
Actually, the initial state of erased flash memory cell is all ones - when writing actual bits, you can only go from 1 to 0, not the other way around. If you need to restore some 1s, you have to erase a complete block and write everything anew.
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now that is very interesting. is there a technical reason making this more practical (the ones really are lighter !!

) or did they just make this decision arbitrarily ?