Exam-style question
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Which statement about writing to an SSD is correct?.
- A.A page can be overwritten directly without any erasure
- B.A page must be erased before it can be written to, but the whole block must be erased
- C.Only the controller can be erased; pages and blocks cannot be erased
- D.A whole SSD must be erased before a single page can be written
Model answer
What a good answer should say
- A page must be erased before it can be written to, and the technology requires the whole block containing the page to be erased.
Explanation
Why this works
An SSD block is made up of many pages. Pages cannot be overwritten directly, and although a page has to be erased before being written to, the whole block must be erased.
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