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Originally Posted by igorsk
It seems to be related to the electrical properties of the components used for making flash memory cells. Wikipedia has some descriptions. |
hm, interesting. i'm surprised to discover that while data can be written in individual bytes it can only be erased in blocks. technology is fascinating, isn't it...
it does seem to make sense though (although i could be extrapolating something which is not there) that the default state would be "on" (1) rather than "off" (0) ; so that means the individual byte begins in a receptive state, since to add data and change to zero, from what i've understood, it requires adding electrons (counter intuitive... add something to 1 to get zero... the description makes less sense than the process).