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Do partitions on SSDs map to physical addresses?

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Mar 15, 20262651 views
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One of the reasons that some folk partition hard drives is that certain parts of the hard drive are supposed to be faster than others. Considering that HDDs are a serial access medium, partitioning, in addition to creating logical partitions, also map to a particular physical set of clusters/blocks…

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In order to know this, you should check how wear leveling works. Where do writes to a specific partition go? In both dynamic and static wear leveling, a map is used to link Logical Block Addresses (LBAs) to the SSD memory. Thus, any write that you d…

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