▶ 5.4 Common Drive Concepts
The previous section focused on hard drive technology. Some of the concepts and technology, notably the section on high-level formatting, also applies to flash drives. This section discusses several technologies applied to both hard drives and flash drives. Most of these technologies were developed for hard drives and are now applied to flash drives.
Flash Drives
Mechanically, flash drives and other solid state drives are completely different from hard drives. Flash drives are purely electronic and do not rely on magnetized surfaces or head motions. Instead, electronic circuits store data by trapping charges in a stable form for long periods of time. The name “flash” refers to an early technique of erasing ...
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