> Apparently you downvoted my sibling response to you as too simplistic,
I didn't downvote your sibling response, but I did ignore it since it provided neither any sources nor any context for why I should trust your knowledge. Apparently others were less kind on your short statement.
With the additional information in this post, I'm much more willing to accept it into my head — thanks for answering this!
Re:NVMe is not a hard disk
by jasonwatkinspdx on Saturday June 12, 2021 @03:55PM
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Yeah sorry that was unnecessarily grouchy of me.
When it comes to what non bare flash drives do, you can start here: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p519-kakaraparthy.pdf
This paper is imperfect and the following citations are worth skimming. There's a cohort of similar papers chasing the same basic question in recent years that aren't densely cited amongst each other.
Go here next: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.46... but note that's just a jumping off point to the more recent papers.
It's hard to gain a full understanding of this layer because it's the basis of intense competition, hence held closely by controller manufacturers.
I'm far from world expert on this, but have read a lot about it and can answer with what I know to the best of my ability.