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   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.   
      
   --    
   Cheers,   
     Daniel.   
      
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