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FYI, all current flash card formats have the equivalent of an SSD controller, implementing a Flash Translation Layer. Exposing raw NAND was somewhat viable in the very early days when everything was using large SLC memory cells (see SmartMedia and xD-Picture Card), but no current format could remain usable for long without wear leveling. If you can use standard filesystems and access the drive or card from multiple operating systems, then it must be providing its own FTL rather than relying on the host software for wear leveling.

The above also applies to eMMC and UFS storage as found in devices like smartphones.



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